Silent old motorcycle film

[Jack B]

Enjoy

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/videos/a31575/old-motorcycle-manufacturing-film/

[BobB]

Very interesting video.  As a mechanical and manufacturing engineer, I found the machinery to be more advanced than I would have expected in that period of time.  Thanks for posting, Jack...

[old2soon]

Unless I missed it entirely didn't see Any gaskets when the cases were assembled. Maybe the machined mating surfaces are THAT good? Old world crafting a Long time ago. The way it used ta wuz. RIDE SAFE.

[da prez]

  I think the video was made for advertisement. If you noticed , the rear tire assembly was put on and then the young'un flipped the belt on. There was no belt on the rim on the install. They reshot that scene. I saw other errors , but it is a very interesting video.
  As for that lathe, we rebushed one just a few years newer than that one.

                                     da prez

[Robert]

Very interesting video.  As a mechanical and manufacturing engineer, I found the machinery to be more advanced than I would have expected in that period of time.  Thanks for posting, Jack...

Are you kidding me 

I am not doubting your statement but I was shocked at the amount of dirt and such at the assemblies areas. The modern repair shop is much cleaner than that and the Factories are usually spotless. Then to hear you say it was expected is just really surprising. Its just hard to believe with that much dirt that things ran at all. I got a big kick when they started them up.

BTW there was no head gasket since there was no removable head and the case halves may not really need to be sealed since leaking oil was not really an issue.

[Skinhead]

I liked the dudes in the foundry pouring iron wearing ties.  No aluminized safety gear or faceshield, hell were they even wearing gloves? ( I didn't notice)

an ex foundryman.

[Pappy!]

Yep....Caught the ties as well.
Great video. Amazing to think that there is not a one of them still kicking.

[FryeVRCCDS0067]

Great video. A good lathe can live almost forever if it's taken care of. I wouldn't be too surprised if one of those isn't still in use somewhere.

Riding those old bikes looked like a ball too! I'll going to have to post this on Facebook for my machine shop co-workers to see. 

[Jersey mike]

I wouldn't mind having one of them now to zip around on, they look like they were pretty fast and fun to ride.

[art]

Used to run turret lathes just like that in the GE back in 1963 that were old then and surplus from the military making steam turbine parts and a few years later making hydraulic cylinders for The C5A transport planes. Yep those machines are still around.

[jim@98valkyrie.com]

Great film, thanks for posting!