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Divided he ad:
Glad it got there Wes :beer:

Hope it confused you for a few moments? Happy you like them.... Saw the card, the mind stirred and the ball started rolling, remember when I asked about approx dates? I wanted them to be about right :)

Wasn't expecting you to post it though... My Mother is still appauled at my handwriting :bugeye: Oh the shame of it.... Where's the red faced smiley?! :lol:

Ralph.

Stilldrillin:
What a wonderful, thoughtful gesture, Ralph! :bugeye:

Well done! :clap: :clap: :thumbup:

David D

mattinker:

--- Quote from: Powder Keg on April 09, 2012, 07:58:59 PM ---I got home from work today and there was a envelope from "Jolly old England" waiting for me. It came by Royal air mail. "Must be important" I says to myself:o) It was a little heavy, so I was thinking, it must be expensive also? There was a great picture waiting inside :clap:

And a note from Ralph\o/

This picture has me thinking that I made something wrong? The seat is mounted different on this fine example.

No worries though. It's probably a different brand of seat. My spring isn't nearly that wide as the one in the picture. I'll check into it though. Maybe they stripped the bike down for a race? The brakes are gone also :med:

Thank you very much Ralph! This means a lot to me:o)

~Wes~

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Wow! that takes me back, I remember going decimal in '71, nineteen at the time, farthings were already already out of use when I was a kid, but I can remember having a couple at home. They seemed smaller than that! Those pennies were huge, made great holes in your pockets!

Regards, Matthew

Powder Keg:
I worked on my Penny some today. I'm building a jig to hold the forks in place while I braze things together. I should have enough to show tomorrow. I have most of the pieces ready to weld together. But I still have to figure out a few things:o)

~Wes~

Powder Keg:
I spent the day monkeying around with my Penny Farthing parts. I've been working on a jig that will hold the front and rear forks while I'm brazing them together. I decided that I needed to finish a couple more bike parts before I could come up with a good jig. The bearing housing for the front wheel needed touched up a little. When I welded them I got them slightly crooked.

I then squared up a couple of blocks to make the front fork ends out of. Here is a rough cut out of the center.

Fine tuning the fit. The fork ends are a gentle tap onto the bearing housings.

I now need to drill them for a bolt and mill the angled pilot holes like I did on the rear fork ends.

More soon:o)

~Wes~

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