White House K10 - a story of regeneration

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I was worried for a moment that the Maglite was a missing bolt.

Please forgive me Cormanus, I've been so focused on getting the bike built that my garage has turned into a war zone. The good news is that to do the next job I had to tidy up and clean the bench.

Courtesy of NHCB1100 (thanks!) a new mph speedo face arrived today so there was no turning back, the speedo had to come apart.

I started by applying a couple of layers of masking tape over the old face, then using the screw heads as a fulcrum point, started to lever off the needle using a flat blade screwdriver and my fingers. Thankfully the technique worked and with a lot of effort, the needle came off.

Swapping the faces was a simple matter of undoing screws, old off, new on and fit screws again.

Refitting the needle, not so easy. The mechanism has a dead stop at zero but without the needle in place it was impossible to turn the mechanism safely, so the only option is to pre-fit, set, remove, reset, remove, reset, etc. until the needle finally rests on the stop at zero mph. When there, push home and we're done.

The inside of the "glass" with the soft cloth from my old sunglasses before screwing it back on.