Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Prepping the old girl for her MOT on Monday
Feel like an expectant Father again

 

Fingers crossed for you, I never approach MoTs with full certainty

 

Bet it will be a lot cheaper though

 

This evening it's been adding extra bungees to the bike cover so it doesn't end up like a kite

 

Been out on the tiger, bit wet at times

 

Washing the bike then a good coat of ACF50 ready for the winter season of riding.

 

just cleaned the windows.

Hopefully this post will turn the page on this thread

 

You might be lucky,,.,

 

Not yet, mate

 

It'd be very very childish of me to post at the top of the next page

(5 posts after this one. Not that I'm remotely considering it)

 

Nappies or Tenna for men are your friend.

 

Getting to be fall like here. Leaves won't last long, its been wet and windy.

 

Fitted some new shoes onto Betty (Avons) and my son of 30 informed me he is picking up a triumph bobber next weekend. His mother is not showing signs of excitement, although to be fair he did only as his bike test a week ago.

 

I'll have to have a word with @dilligaf he is the expert on these things

 

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Naw, i wouldnt do that

 

Ha do you know something that I should

 

I was just making it very clear that I *can* exhibit restraint.

Karma for when I don't

 

A simple bar going from the bottom of your boxes up to the frame creating a triangle would stop that.

 

Um... have you seen the pictures of the welds? I'm not sure more bracing is going to fix the problem, it may just mean more scattered pieces on the roadway.

I'm sorry Duckadiledundee, but it seems your grinder skills are much more advanced than your welding skills?

Getting all the paint off the boxes and bracing before you start would help, but it mostly looks like you have heat and /or shielding gas issues. Are you using a shielding gas bottle or innershield wire with no gas?

The pictures show a combination of not enough heat on some of the piled up welds on the frame and bracing, and then some burn through issues on the cans. Any paint in the area leads to burn off and contamination of the weld.

If the cans are that thin, you may have better luck with bolts holding them to the braces instead of welding. If you have to weld the cans to the braces, try concentrating the heat and weld on your bracing, and then just barely flow it onto the can.