BOLLOCKS!!!!! 
Time for a 100PD rebuild
- Thread starter Rob Farmer
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BOLLOCKS!!!!! 
solidstate100
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^that^ what a fu*ker. Sorry to see that.
Oh FFS Rob
Alloy welder? :confused
so sorry for you
solidstate100
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Just a thought, can you not convert the kickstart gearbox to a non kickstart gearbox by just swapping the end cover? Cheaper (but not ideal of course option ) - I think that has been done on my G/S as a mashed kickstart cover was included in the box of bits supplied with my G/S.
tadhgocuilleain
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You must be disgusted. 
I hope you get it sorted easily.
I hope you get it sorted easily.
Really feel for you
B Murr
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FFS!
I've only dropped the rebuilt gearbox while fitting it! I'd even put a load of bubble wrap on the floor. I was balancing the gearbox while connecting the neutral switch wires, dropped the gearbox and then batted it away from the bubble wrap onto the concrete floor and into the wall.
The upshot is my freshly rebuilt gearbox now has a broken end cover and a chunk out of the main case. I've spare end covers and cases but this is a kickstart gearbox so the only options to buy a new cover.
I've fitted loads of gearboxes over the years with no problems at all..so all told this gearbox will have cost the best part of a grand - New input shaft, bearings, seals and a circlip output shaft and obviously a new end cover.
Am I right in thinking the bit missing from the end over just holds the driveshaft gaiter, and isn't under much stress so could be amenable to a chemical metal or araldide fix, or would the heat cause the latter to crack in time? Can the missing piece from main case be welded back in, most of the circumference of the hole is still intact and presumably able to retain the bolt that goes through it? Why not, as already suggested earlier, alloy weld the damaged bits back on?
The upshot to all this damage is that chancers like myself, who might know the theory but not have enough hands on practice with some jobs can feel better when we make mistakes that make us wonder would it not have been cheaper to farm the work out.
Oh Dear 
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It can happen to any one of us. At least it was your box, having to spend a lot on repairing someone else's would be a scunner.
I think trying to weld it would just end up with you throwing good money after bad as you wouldn't be happy with it. I would replace the broken bits but keep them to practice my alloy welding on
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Its just Sod's Law I'm afraid.
Please keep the thread running though
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Bob.
.It can happen to any one of us. At least it was your box, having to spend a lot on repairing someone else's would be a scunner.
I think trying to weld it would just end up with you throwing good money after bad as you wouldn't be happy with it. I would replace the broken bits but keep them to practice my alloy welding on
.Its just Sod's Law I'm afraid.
Please keep the thread running though
.Bob.
I really do sense your pain.....What an utter bummer......
Verns surfaced and kindly offered to weld the cases for me. If you've ever seen his welding you'll know that's quite an offer.
I have a few spare gearbox cases and with the ordered new end cover will be able to keep the momentum going on the rebuild of the whole bike.
nice work on the rebuild rob. bugger about the gearbox mishap but these things are easily done, and it sounds like you've got it all in hand
Anything good to report Rob ??
My Motobins order didn't arrive. I've rebuilt the box but can't do the shimming until the new end cover arrives
Ain't she purdy?
Benjamin M
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Nice, it's going to be a tidy machine 
Looks brand new ! 
Ain't she purdy?
Yep. And them oil seals'll sure have purdy lips!
That's more like it. Shimmed the box, fitted the new end cover and put it where it belongs (without launching it across the garage this time)
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