Hose Job

 

I bought a hank of hose yesterday for the new welder. The TIG torch, ground and electrode leads are all pretty short. The welder is on wheels and I have an extension cord for it, with the longer argon hose I can roll the welder around and reach most anywhere I need to. I have longer leads for stick welding I can use, but right now I can barely reach the vise on the welding bench with the TIG torch. I should have specced a longer torch when I bought the machine, but the longer hose should do the trick. 

Thinking about the finish of the vintage trials bike - powdercoat or paint and what color. I'm leaning towards a green frame, which should look good with the alloy fenders and tank. The photo shows a Francis-Barnett Plover that came in Arden Green. To my color deficient eyeballs, looks like British Racing Green. I put in a search for British Racing Green and found there are several shades of British Racing Green. There's a real good article all about that here. I have a Plover like the one in the photo, but mine is blue. If it was green I might be able to find a spot on the bike somewhere that wasn't faded and get it matched up.

This is a '67 XKE I assume is British Racing Green. It shouldn't be too difficult to track the color name and code for that one. I'm planning on making the last part for the bike's shift linkage today. Shouldn't be much more in the way of fabrication left, so conceivably, I could get this one finished yet this year. I'm going to have eye surgery sometime after my class wraps up in December - be nice to have it done prior to that.

I hung up the latest bracket yesterday and loaded up some stock on it. I think at least one more set of brackets would be advisable, maybe two. I need to get some more angle before I can do that, however. I also need to make a couple of hangers for some wire and a gaggle of swingarms. Lots to do, but since I'm off next week I'm thinking about going camping for a couple of days. It's been a long time since I've had my little camper out.