Quite Strange Headlight Question

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randomsquid · #16 Post by **randomsquid** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:38 am

Willopotomas wrote:Ian at '4 Fabrications' is bloody brilliant.. Managed to repair an old cast ally brake plate from my old Triumph.. Did a brilliant job.. had Mark at Watsons Metal Polishers polish the flange.. lovely jubley...

I'll bear him in mind, ta. Used to use an ex-bsa gnome in a shed in Smethwick but he's long shut up shop.

randomsquid · #17 Post by **randomsquid** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:41 am

Nooj wrote:It's not just a loose bulb is it?

Be nice if it was

I'll certainly check.
I'm afraid it might have succumbed to the awesome g forces generated by bronze ones though.

randomsquid · #18 Post by **randomsquid** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:43 am

tommy wrote:Mine does this. Fairing bracket is fine though. I put it down to stiff springy bits

Cheers, that's heartening. I was hoping it was a combination of stiffness and the roads round here looking like a WW1 battlefield.

randomsquid · #19 Post by **randomsquid** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:45 am

D-Rider wrote:certainly aluminium - but what variety I don't know

Might soon be the variety with added dexion, self-tappers and duct tape. It'll probably be something pointlessly exotic to save a few pounds of weight.

furygan man · #20 Post by **furygan man** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:19 am

Aladinsaneuk wrote:and if it is buggered - pray - they can be very hard to source....

(but i have heard that the hinkley refugee may be making some.....)

Eh?

If you did need another (prob not) the 'hill climber' and 'guy emergrating to Canada' (sorry forgot names!!!) were selling ones in recent posts!

Edit- think it was Ben Wah and Falconist??

randomsquid · #21 Post by **randomsquid** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:35 am

Been to have a prod.

All bracketry looks solid and in good shape.
Shook the fairing bracket hard enough to set off the alarm without any untoward movement or creaking.

The dip beam was probably a bit loose, it did move when I gave it a shove.

There seems to be a hell of a lot of movement in the reflector though, and one of the wires is chaffed.

Thanks everybody for the input. I'd buy you a virtual beer, but I'm a tight bugger.