Fullauto Technologies is SOLD!

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If Johns e start components and clutch centres are anything to go by, I would say the baton has been handed (sold) to the right person.
Well done Ken!
I have a FA head number #10 on my race bike as of August.
Regards Mike
 
Yes it is true, Fullauto production will be moving to the US. We are keeping the Fullauto name as tribute to Ken and the name origin in the firearms market. As far as cylinders go, take a look at the billet Triumph cyclinders already made at STS. As time goes on I will let everyone know how this wonderful product will be marketed
Fullauto Technologies is SOLD!
Fullauto Technologies is SOLD!
 
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Fantastic looks like its in good hands

a profesional manufacturing company like special tool solutions should be able to turn out a high quality product

it will be intersting to hear thier intentions on possible path to market higher volume production to distributors to reduce manufacturing cost

or small number production straight to the end user and keep retail price affordable
 
Fast Eddie said:
Well done John. Looking forward to see what you put out.

Now, if you could just buy Steve Maney’s business as well, we’ll be sorted !!
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Hello Eddy,
Although I like(d) Steve's products in general, I wasn't to fond if his cylinder barrel. I much prefer the original 850- design with the all cast in cylinder bolts. I think this design is less prone to distortion. Maybe the Maney- design should have copied the original Dunstall- design for Brittish classic racing.
 
Klaus Monning said:
Hello Eddy,
Although I like(d) Steve's products in general, I wasn't to fond if his cylinder barrel. I much prefer the original 850- design with the all cast in cylinder bolts. I think this design is less prone to distortion. Maybe the Maney- design should have copied the original Dunstall- design for Brittish classic racing.
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May be a language problem here Klaus.

Steve did indeed follow the Dunstall design because of eligibility concerns with the CRMC in the UK!

And since the CRMC later declared 850cc style Norton barrels eligible, he probably needn't have done that, or could have later revised his design. But of course by then the investment (and patterns) were made!

I have a set of Maney barrels I have yet to install, planned for this winter, but I do much prefer the 850 cast iron barrel for appearance. So Like others I will track developments.
 
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Steve's patterns and drawings for crank cases and crankshafts would surely be worth having, as would his CNC programmes for head work for the different stages he does.

I have just received a stage 3 head from Steve and the porting work is truly exquisite !

Applying Steve's CNC porting programmes into brand new castings would be even more exquisiter !!
 
I have a couple of Steve's barrels but do prefer the original 850 style. I would have bought some original style ally barrels from Norvil, but having dealt with Les before if there had been any problems it would have been my fault & not the parts!!
 
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I,m with you and Matchless, preferring 850 replica aluminium barrels that save around 10lb in weight and do not need repainting every so often. ( I like silver barrels rather than black) Under £1000.
 
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Good news.... I've been eyeing that cnw E-start and also clutch centre ... eventually it won't be a Norton any more, we'll have to call it a CNW.... or is that STS ...
 
Perhaps we will soon be able to buy a complete reproduction Commando racing motor from one source within the USA ?
 
Matchless said:
I have a couple of Steve's barrels but do prefer the original 850 style. I would have bought some original style ally barrels from Norvil, but having dealt with Les before if there had been any problems it would have been my fault & not the parts!!
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Have you ever wondered why he does not still do them as the original 850 style. It would certainly have been the parts, it did not work, I believe if you ask Steve he will tell you the same and thus he came up with his design as it was the more stable.
 
Congrats! Hope you did well out of it - as you deserve.
I just collected what I took to be probably the last one available in Vic (if not the country). Trouble is, I think it's such a work of art I want to leave it on my coffee table, and not under my petrol tank!
 
Ken showed me one of his cylinder heads when he visited me a couple of years ago. It is quite an achievement. I have a couple of friends who have made a living manufacturing after-market parts for motorcycles. Making a Norton Commando cylinder head in Australia, must be the most difficult way to go. However it shows what can be done. I think it is good that the heads will now be made in America, they seem to think much bigger there. What really disturbs me is Ken's difficulty in finding foundries - seems Australia has taken a step back into the Dark Ages. I don't think Donald Trump is doing the right thing by imposing tariffs on Chinese imports, but he has a point.
 
I spent a lot of my life as an industrial chemist in defence engineering factories. So I had a bit to do with foundries in Australia. Most of their work would have come from the car industry, however both our defence manufacturing and our car industry have almost disappeared due to the policies of conservative governments. With the car industry, a definite decision was made to stop subsidising it - it threw thousands of workers onto welfare payments, so the savings were largely cancelled out. At about the same time Free Trade Agreements were signed with China, however the contents of those agreements are not public knowledge. Australian politics are often about social class - what happens to workers is often not even a consideration, however many workers believe they are billionaires when all they have got is a steady job, so the conservatives remain in power.
 
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