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I don't like the way the Dommie and Atlas motors sat straight up, a Commando needs to be leaning into the wind, plus they look faster that way in my mind, so when I made my engine plates it had to lean forward (it has a catch me if you can look about it), when I first built this bike there were no shops around that you could buy engine plates and stuff to do the conversion so every thing had to be made, I was lucky that I worked at a TAFE college (trade college) for 31 years and was aT/A to a maintenance Fitter/Turner for 15 years while there so I had lots of machinery to use and play with, it was a lot of fun making things for my Norton and the tradesman (Steve) I worked with was such a good teacher to me, we had a Oxy cutting machine that had a lazer light so we copyed the patten with Indian ink set it up and the cutter followed the patten, cut the plates perfect, just had to grinde the sharp edges of the plates (5mm steel plates).If I need to do major work on the motor I can undo 4 engine mount bolts and remove the head stay then just lift the whole engine, gearbox and primary out in one hit but a lot easyer with the carbies off of course and just put it up on the bench.Ashley
I don't like the way the Dommie and Atlas motors sat straight up, a Commando needs to be leaning into the wind, plus they look faster that way in my mind, so when I made my engine plates it had to lean forward (it has a catch me if you can look about it), when I first built this bike there were no shops around that you could buy engine plates and stuff to do the conversion so every thing had to be made, I was lucky that I worked at a TAFE college (trade college) for 31 years and was aT/A to a maintenance Fitter/Turner for 15 years while there so I had lots of machinery to use and play with, it was a lot of fun making things for my Norton and the tradesman (Steve) I worked with was such a good teacher to me, we had a Oxy cutting machine that had a lazer light so we copyed the patten with Indian ink set it up and the cutter followed the patten, cut the plates perfect, just had to grinde the sharp edges of the plates (5mm steel plates).
If I need to do major work on the motor I can undo 4 engine mount bolts and remove the head stay then just lift the whole engine, gearbox and primary out in one hit but a lot easyer with the carbies off of course and just put it up on the bench.
Ashley
