Another speedo restoration

As usual, click any image to zoom in.


We tried hooking up Mark's "new" speedo to his bike last weekend. Although the odometer worked, the needle moved not a jot.


This was somewhat disappointing given that in carrickbay's description on ebay it was claimed that the "needle moves when you spin with Allen key".


Mark was spitting sparks so I took the speedo home and dismantled it. Turns out the description was somewhat less than accurate as the needle mechanism was seized.

I eventually managed to free it up with some WD40 and today we tried it in the bike. It read 25mph when doing 30mph so it didn't take more than 3 or 4 turns of the brass adjusting screw to get it reading correctly again.

Maybe we should go into business - there's a fortune to be made judging by how much some people are charging for what we've done here more than once!