There is no shame in admitting a task is beyond you for whatever reason. These reasons are as varied as lacking in skill, lacking in equipment or lacking in time. For some reason a bunch of these reasons have all banded together and caused a halt in every project I have. This bottleneck has arrived because I neither have the equipment nor the skills needed to weld either steel or aluminium alloy. I could learn these skills but it would require an investment of time and funds which are just not available to me at the moment.
It used to be possible for enthusiastic restorers to take an evening class in necessary skills and actually achieve a level of competency to advance a restoration. Additionally these evening classes, generally at a local tech college, would have access to way more equipment than would be possible for the average enthusiast to justify. Once the pandemic stops interfering in our lives I don’t doubt such classes will start again unless some other factor prevents it. The IT has joined a queue of bikes at Audit CNC Solutions and I’m assured it is nearing the front of the queue. It needs a tweak to the sidestand bracket so the sidestand can fold out of the waytwo-part clamp which meant the left grip didn’t have to come off to change the lever. Ordering a lever to clamp to the bars as a spare, pre-disc brake days it would do either side, along came the package and in it was just the lever – I’d been expecting the whole assembly. I rang the parts place and asked where the rest of it was: “You only asked for the lever.” No point in arguing as the reply was correct. I learned, a few moments into the conversation, the lever blade I’d got was only one bit of the complete assembly, the others being upper and lower holder, blade, washers and pivots in all, eight separate bits to make up the lever assembly, all with their own part numbers.
