Showing posts with label homemade lambretta tool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homemade lambretta tool. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 September 2010

More tools from my father-in-law

The most recent tool my father-in-law created for me is the flywheel holder.
I asked him if he'd willing to make more and sell these if any Lammy owners needed one and he said he could do it for $20 (he lives in Portland, Oregon). Not so much to turn a profit, but more so help other restorers and wrenchers out.
If you're in need, PM me on LCUSA.

He also made me a hub holding too from a free busted up 1/2 rim I got from Guillermo of Lambretta Works. Thx G.

Tuesday, 28 July 2009

Lambretta tools by Dien Nguyen

My father-in-law has 30 plus years experience as a professional welder and when it come to fabricating most things he can do it. Hell, he redid our entire kitchen in our previous home. He's got mad game when it comes to "projects". I cashed in yet again with him this July (2009). Mr. Nguyen is a refugee from Vietnam and escaped the fall of Saigon with less than 24 hours before it fell. He tells my wife and I stories of his love of Lambrettas when he was younger. He said that Vespas were for old people in Vietnam and young rode Lambrettas. He loves Lambrettas. We went for a ride together a few years back and he can ride too.

Anyhow, I showed him pictures and measurements of a clutch compressor I borrowed from Dano of FLCSC in Oakland and this is what he made me (note that Dano's is in back of mine):I ended up with a professional quality clutch compressor for free made from scraps at my father-in-law's work. I am pretty damn happy.

I wasn't overly worried about polishing mine, but I did grind/sand down the tip of the bolt so as it would not hurt the scoot itself. An alternative design can be found here. It would look something like this.

Another tool he made for me was the con-rod tool. Mr. Nguyen followed Jim M.'s design on this one. I can grind the inside smooth no problem, but to be honest it may not be necessary. Crude looking tools that function properly do not bother me at all as long as they do not hurt the scoot. A crude looking restoration is what would bother me.

Thanx Bo (dad in Vietnamese). As usual I owe you one!

Sunday, 26 July 2009

Lambretta tool: Kieran Walsh's & Stewart Nicol's silent block extractor/installer

Below is one of the best homemade designed silent block extractor/installer tool. You can purchase these parts at Home Depot or alike in the electrical, plumbing, and hardware sections and you will be able to make this tool at a fraction of the $70 it costs to buy this tool.

Above is the plan designed by Kieran Walsh& Stewart Nicol.

The extractor is on the left side and the installer is on the right.



Here is the tricky cut outs to fit the engine case.

2 inch section.

2 and 1/2 inch section.


Thanx for sharing Kieran.