In the last few years I've made a few bits for the hand gear control, including parts of the tank lever, clevis pins for both ends of the rod and the clevis itself for the gearbox end.
All that remains is the rod itself. This is made from a piece of 5/16" 316 stainless steel which can be made to be very shiny but isn't fun to machine. At least all it needs is a thread and at each end.
We'll use the lathe to get the thread square and to put a small undercut on the short 5/16" thread at the tank end.
This looks quite neat but I'm surprised to see that one of the tank end clevises has obviously been painted - or perhaps chemically blacked. More on that later he says mysteriously!
This is the gearbox end clevis. That reduced hex full nut doesn't look very good - I'll make a new one.
That's a job for later though - right now the gear control rod fouls the carburettor bellmouth. It needs a little bend.
There is always scrap on the bench such as this piece scaffold tube which is used bending things sometimes.
That's much better. The part that comes down from the tank is parallel to the centre line of the bike and then the rod bends inwards towards the gearbox. It works beautifully.
That's it for the moment - we'll polish up a bit of 303 stainless hex for that lock nut.
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