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I like the controls since mid pegs are a back saver.

It's a chopper. What matters is the specific components when it comes time for you to work on it. "History" is pretty irrelevant since HDs and clones are as generic as it gets. Look at the engine...

For the outer bearing race there's no reason not to use sleeve retainer. Clean with acetone or similar non-petroleum solvent for best adhesion or use the sleeve retainer mfr recommended adhesion...

Nice upgrade over an Ironhead (which for most people are a mistake).

The sooner you inspect the tensioner shoes the better because a ruined engine is an expensive annoyance. Do a crankshaft...

Chop Cult is not an https site so some browsers and utilities (I'm on Linux so I don't keep track of Windows utilities) automatically flag it.

Carbon steel plus plating is so expensive (and chrome prone to pitting and far from durable by comparison) the cost of plating might be better spent on an argon cylinder and making another bar using...

It ain't cheap but the Chinesium versions aren't cheap either. I don't see them lasting thirty or forty years like HD switches as they're delicate and the plastic is inferior too.

Since most old...

Bolting to table is an interesting idea since it turns the table into a very large "chain wrench" that could work with bare shafts too.

The Carl Salter site and the Harley PDF Manual Trade and Share Facebook group (which has MANY factory manuals and factory parts catalogs) both have all the books ya need free with no bullshit,...

The Chinesium aftermarket switch kits suck compared to stock HD parts but these were unavailable for quite a while:
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Might as well make it a bit large so you can cast translucent trike bodies with internal LED lighting. (Hint, hint)

Good to know you got it sorted out!

Sexy bit of work! I like the unusual spiral hole pattern too.

Full swap including rotor is a good way to begin with a clean slate (magnet adhesive weakens with age).

Silicon dielectric grease (any auto store) in the connector will exclude moisture and oil.

Good to know.

Thanks to VFDs (which offer dialup precise speed control) there's no longer much need to convert three phase machine tools, and three phase motors are slightly smoother thus producing slightly better...

The stock starter design was utter shit (the reason they later went away) but I'd save all the parts because time flies and old age doesn't care about kicker lust.

Old HD brakes suck and big...

You can weld the cart, a typical first project that gets you a better cart. See the Weldingweb forums for some excellent examples. Small wheels suck and bigger is better. You can and I do keep the...

Using HD kick pedals on British bikes is a very old mod. Match the new pedal to the old one (thickness can be ground or filed down if required, I've not done a BSA) ensure the spring has enough...

I hope you didn't pay much or got an epic parts deal if you did. What posessed you to buy a motorcycle without a title?

Don't do ANY retarded shit like borrowing plates and consider whoever...

You can use a vacuum chamber to remove entrained air and one way to get that would be (for example) an old pressure cooker body or something else able to hold vacuum and an ordinary Robinair vacuum...

Download the factory service manual and parts catalog. The Carl Salter site and others have them. Dead tree books are nice but having .pdfs everywhere is even nicer.

Google the part number which will also get you other part numbers for the same thing.

Also go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/1465028990466294/ (worth making a dummy account to get though...

Best to think of it as bound in the rapture of True Love®. Mere hobbies like crocheting, glans branding and playing with old machinery come and go, but love must take precedence.

The award winning...

If hot rodders and bikers fail to lobby their state governments are guaranteed to shit all over them.

Organize and vote and make sure local politicians know about it. Eventually the hobby will...