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Comment by Mike Partain on July 29, 2009 at 4:12pm

Does anyone out there remember how much fork oil goes in the 1980 Honda CR125? Clymer says 287 cc but that feels to soft and I heard it top out. Thanx: Partaw

Comment by jack thompson on January 26, 2009 at 8:24pm

Can anyone build a titanium rotary valve

Comment by Craig Knight on January 17, 2009 at 11:50pm

bet that lasted a few days. hopefully, they had an impromptu desert race to take advantage of the "signal fire".

Comment by Martin Brazil on January 17, 2009 at 10:28pm

Rob's burned to the ground. Have to find another supplier . . . ..

Comment by jack thompson on January 17, 2009 at 2:21pm

Paul , keep it up.You may end up like pabatco.If it were not for pabatco there wouldnt have been super rat.hey do a race bike . see if ya can get taiwan to build a 74 cr125, be cool

Comment by Danny Doss on January 17, 2009 at 1:36pm

Paul, I like the scooters you're building. Can I get one in Kawasaki green?

Comment by WooT on January 17, 2009 at 12:04pm

Paul
Not sure how the cost is these days. You might want to research stereolithograhy and investment casting.

Comment by Paul Burnett on January 16, 2009 at 12:55pm

Thanks Danny,
If you could get me the contact info and I'll pass it on. My email is
paul@hammerheadoffroad.com

I remember JR quoting me about $15K for the tooling to make a CR intake manifold like the 76 & later. How did they retail them in the 70's for about $20?

The cost is about half to do it in Taiwan but we can get it done in China now for almost half of Taiwan with decent quality contol now.
Here's a pic of the scooter we just commisioned that I tried to get our Taiwanese factory to do for years but they estimated the start up cost in the 350-400K range !
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n47/bermshot2/VBB.jpg
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n47/bermshot2/VBBRHT.jpg

Comment by Danny Doss on January 16, 2009 at 12:12pm

Paul, I work with a small tool & die shop who does outstanding work and is usually much cheaper then most shops. The also do injection molding, but not metal castings. There's another small foundry in the area that I could check with about castings. As you probably already know, it's the tooling that costs.

Comment by Paul Burnett on January 16, 2009 at 11:42am

Is JR's old shop in business? I have a friend that wants to make some MC related repop's of plastic,rubber and some metal castings and doesn't want to do it off shore.
Does anyone else have the tool & die,injection and casting contacts for small runs, don't really know the qty.

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