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Welcome to the ward where all afflicted with Norton disease are quarantined.

Beautiful bike - best of luck with it . Remember the old adage -

" The only stupid question is the one that isn't asked "

Cheers - Richard

Previously Leigh Hughston wrote:

Hello all

I have recently purchased a 58 dominator 99 and i felt it was right to join the club. i am very new to british bikes and my whole motorcycling career has been with jap bikes. I am 43 and ive got bored with them so i needed something with some soul and character. I have totally been sucked into the Norton now and bought all the period clothing to go along with it. I just need the knowledge now to maintain it, so please bear with me if i ask any realy stupid questions.

Many thanks

Leigh

hello the one thing that the japanese has got right that a motorcycle that dose not oil leak so welcome to the oil leakers club and now you have Norton you have to go buy all the imperial tools as well if had wanted something with a real soul I would of joined a steam locomotive preservation society the only machine that man has made that feels alive when in use, But a Norton is most likely the next best thing its old antiquated and expensive and built like a steam engine, yours Anna j

Previously Leigh Hughston wrote:

Hi Anna

I have started building up my whitworth tool collection, car boot sales and charity shops have been very fruitful. I still kept my jap bikes of which I have 3 sports bikes and yeah they never leak oil a real bonus. I do like steam engines, perhaps when I retire i will volunteer my services to a steam railway.

regards

Leigh

hello have a look on ebay vintage tools full set of king dick nice for 24 quid , but i Like spearpoint made for Norton motorcycles or Shelley or Jenbro whitworth and a mini gas welding torch ebay again 116 quid with four gas and oxy bottles these come in very handy for small jobs , well i have the lot large set of oxy/acetylene gas welder and cutting torch plus mig and arch welding tools one Atlas 10 inch swing over bed lathe witch i am converting in to CNC Cad/Cam electronic controller full set of air tools and spraying tools one forty foot by twenty foot work shop gas heated and washing and toilet facilities coffee or tea cabinet with biscuits and norton mugs one women in workshop to her self and nice music classic FM ,and two Rare Nortons One ginger tom called jock ps just bought a Ford transit Mk5 smiley long wheel base ex minibus from malta to make a bike transporter and camper all in one, it was a seal that the price I paid for it, yours anna j

A rust free Smiley is a thing of wonder!, I hope its in better mechanical condition than the Buses on Malta. Check the shocks and springs.

Previously Leigh Hughston wrote:

Previously anna jeannette Dixon wrote:

Previously Leigh Hughston wrote:

Hi Anna

I have started building up my whitworth tool collection, car boot sales and charity shops have been very fruitful. I still kept my jap bikes of which I have 3 sports bikes and yeah they never leak oil a real bonus. I do like steam engines, perhaps when I retire i will volunteer my services to a steam railway.

regards

Leigh

hello have a look on ebay vintage tools full set of king dick nice for 24 quid , but i Like spearpoint made for Norton motorcycles or Shelley or Jenbro whitworth and a mini gas welding torch ebay again 116 quid with four gas and oxy bottles these come in very handy for small jobs , well i have the lot large set of oxy/acetylene gas welder and cutting torch plus mig and arch welding tools one Atlas 10 inch swing over bed lathe witch i am converting in to CNC Cad/Cam electronic controller full set of air tools and spraying tools one forty foot by twenty foot work shop gas heated and washing and toilet facilities coffee or tea cabinet with biscuits and norton mugs one women in workshop to her self and nice music classic FM ,and two Rare Nortons One ginger tom called jock ps just bought a Ford transit Mk5 smiley long wheel base ex minibus from malta to make a bike transporter and camper all in one, it was a seal that the price I paid for it, yours anna j

Hi Anna

Sounds like you got a epic workshop going on, I would like a decent workshop myself one day. I am a time served machinist currently employed at Rolls-Royce Raynesway, so I got the skills. Just purchased a house with double garage so I got the space too. 6 bikes in total now tho, need to trim the fat realy, couple of them are not worth the space. A good large and Miller and Iâd be set up. Oxy accetylene equipment not really necessary for me tho as we have loads of guys at work that do all that.

Regards

Leigh

hello, I am too a machinist and marine engineer along with all other skills I have learnt and still learning at 64, you never stop learning something new or pick old skills from the past, the Oxy/acetylene I have is the full-size which is not used much and a mini set and I mean mini, nice thin flame for doing small jobs but you could weld up a motorcycle tank with this on even made one, if your any good at metal bashing, homemade Englishwheel and beanie bag and pear-shapedhammers for starting off making curved shapes like tanks or mudguards which I made in the past, and even the odd car wing, Morris, next up is to do the wiring on my 54 dommie, so plenty to do, now you need to make your own alloy folding easy to store workbench to put youR Nice Norton on now and then I hate working on the floor, and in the cold I have a nice gas fire to heat up the workshop, yesturedayI got a load of old whitworthsannergiven me from an old friend hes now 90 years old and still riding he old velocett, witch, now he comes to me to do if anything gose wrong but up to now I only seviced the old girl, with an old change he uses castorl LX 40, I loved the sound of a good old singel, and would not mind a 19s Norton but there very thin on the ground now to find, yours anna j