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Hi all , came across this video of a bullet engine stripdown in India. Definitely not for the mechanically squeamish ,and our hosts were certainly not troubled by purchases of extractors...... Handy tips on getting the cylinder head off though , couldn't watch the screwdriver between the fins bit !!!!!

Where there's a will , there's a way though , got to admire their "ingenuity"

Watch behind the sofa.... !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_WD5m9R ... re=related


REgards , Roy

Thanks Roy, that is brilliant. I guess it will make most of us feel a little smug when we compare the way we work on an engine, but we are just lucky to be born in Britain. Im surprised that they never thumped upwards inside the exhaust port with a lump of wood and hammer. I'd love to see the way they rebuild the crank and put back together the engine...still working directly from the grit pit they are sitting in.

That reminds me of some of the rebuilds I done in me back garden in my younger days of the late 60s when I was teenage apprentice little money had to go a long way back then and you got by and made do without most special tools if you could not borrow them. Excellent bit of film listen to the background sounds of cocks crowing and traffic continuously hooting..

Thanks Roy ------ It's always nice to watch a professional work and see how it should be done, ----- we can all learn something from this.---- tongue firmly in cheek.

I've done worse!!

When I was about 17 (around 200 years ago) I went round to my mate's house and watched his dad trying to remove the cylinder head of a Honda CB72 with a hammer and chisel. After about half and hour of trying using this industry standard method he found out that he'd left a stud in place. Bet the guy in the vid did the same thing.

Les, I have pictures of one being fully stripped like that and then rebuilt back, unfortunately no video to share, only pictures. You want to see them do a re-spray. Now thats real H&S concern !!

--------GRIPPING STUFF, EH?? Mind you--any field service Engineer will be nodding in a sympathetic sort of way !! I know I was!! What the heck are they using for primary oil ?? Goats milk !! Shall I let you into a secret ? It was filmed round the back of Blockley Manor --------- Chennai Factory has sent a team of Roving Fitters to update importers on current ideas, tooling etc. I'm off now to buy majority shares in the National Electric Horn Co. Ltd. Thanks ROY--also for the others allied to that one on U-tube.

Nice to see someone else who's first tool of choice is a lump hammer.

ONLY tool of choice was a hammer!
I got sick of them just hitting everything......
Felt sorry for the bike, but it does show how simply the engine can be stripped down, if you are not bothered much about it!