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    Default A friendly "GUTEN TAG" from Austria (you know, the one lacking the "L")

    Obviously German has to be spelled in capital letters, spoken with a weird accent, very loud and wearing a monocle.

    The name's Greg, engineer/machinist by trade originally, even though nowadays I am making sure my hairy backside is planted firmly on a hard stool at university. I love building bikes, especially sidecars and I have a little blog of mine called https://greasygreg.blogspot.com . Aside from building stainless exhaust and doing shenanigans with turbo-chargers strapped to motorcycles I run a (Knuth-branded - gotta love them German's, eh?) 6x26 mill and Coronet/Rhino PLN-5 and the lathe is what brought me to this forum. As the user TomW apparently has bought one of these in 2013. I've owned mine since I dragged it out of a very moist barn, which mostly inhabited chicken and rats, in 2018.

    Here's a picture (as shown on Tony's lathes.co.uk page):

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    It's admitted not looking a whole lot better, when it comes to paint, but the bed and all ways have been de-rusted and the electrical motor swapped twice. Nowadays rocking a single-phase 1.5kW 1400rpm motor, which suits the machine just fine.

    Guess it's only fair to share a link to a little writeup on my 6x26mill as fair, because I am afraid she might get jealous, if I don't...

    https://greasygreg.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-new-mill-named-knuth-6x26-mill.html
    Last edited by nanno; 27th Jun 2021 at 06:09 PM. Reason: typos

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    Willkommen



    Stainless exhausts and turbochargers? Wow.

    How would you deal with the oil return on a turbocharged bike?
    (assuming the turbo is in front and down low)

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    Quote Originally Posted by nigelpearson View Post
    Willkommen



    Stainless exhausts and turbochargers? Wow.

    How would you deal with the oil return on a turbocharged bike?
    (assuming the turbo is in front and down low)
    Well the turbo is half-height and on the side, so I've got a solid 80-100mm above oil-level at the very least, so gravity is easily sufficient to drain the turbo. If it weren't, a scavenge pump would be my go-to choice. Ideally take a small bike's oilpump and drive that from the crank and pump it back this way. Actually oil-volume and -pressure management were the two things that caused me the most headache initially but turned out to be "no big deal".




    Bit of a writeup, what I did to it lately: https://greasygreg.blogspot.com/2021...from-dead.html

    Cheers,
    Greg

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    Welcome to the forum.

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    Hi nanno,
    Welcome to the Forums.
    We have some fine folks here who are supportive friendly and helpful.

    Please take the time to navigate around the forums to view the varied and interesting subjects.
    There is a dedicated Hercus Forum here so there is a good place to start.

    To do this, goto the the FORUM box in the top left hand corner of the screen. Click Forum Home and a scroll down page will come up.

    Scroll down the page and the various help pages and sub forums shall be shown.

    Please read the Terms of Use on the very top of the scroll down page - they are our rules.
    To save time here's the link

    https://metalworkforums.com/f90/t197...terms-tou-read

    Many pages also have a sticky at the top.If you post its always a good idea to check the sticky ,if there is one there.

    Please post your questions in the appropriate MetalWork forum.

    Again, welcome to our forums.

    Grahame

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    Welcome.

    In 1989, while living in the US, I visited Austria and bought a T-shirt with "There are no Kangaroos in Austria" on the front and back.
    This was obviously a tease to US tourists who apparently often asked where the kangaroos were.
    This was also most valuable to me because I wore it often in the US because many of the locals confused Austria and Australia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    Welcome.

    In 1989, while living in the US, I visited Austria and bought a T-shirt with "There are no Kangaroos in Austria" on the front and back.
    This was obviously a tease to US tourists who apparently often asked where the kangaroos were.
    This was also most valuable to me because I wore it often in the US because many of the locals confused Austria and Australia.
    A few years ago, when I started building the very first iteration of the Turbo bike, I bought a Mikuni VM44 carburettor in the US, because due to a cheaper base price and a (for me) favourable exchange rate. I admit, I had planned for a few weeks of headroom, but when the carb didn't arrive after 4 weeks I got a bit worried, because if it had gotten stuck in customs, they would have sent me a letter/e-mail that I had to provide more docs. So I went to my local post-office and they checked the international transport records and the lady behind the counter burst out in laughter and said: Well, if you want to meet your carb in person, I hear Sydney post office is quite lovely this time of the year! Took about another month until it arrived.

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