I know that satisfied feeling: Whilst stopped in Normandy on my '54 civvy G3LS a 'young' chap said his Dad rode one in WW2 and asked me to follow him to his house in a narrow backstreet. He went indoors into a gloomy front room and I heard him tell his Dad he had something to show him. "I know" he wheezed "I can hear it, it's a Matchless". He wheeled the very old boy out into the street and his beaming face was a picture. I offered him a trip round the block even though he was far too weak to do it.Iron Head wrote:I was sitting in traffic on Saturday and the old girl was being filmed by a couple in an Italian restaurant both waving enthusiastically - felt very proud of an all original ‘roadworn' bike that was likely last on the roads in the 60's!
You *shouldn't* be able to do that (as I guess you've realised) as the top shoulder would normally be inaccessible just inside the head. (Ignore the 'O' rings in the other tube hole - I use several of them at the top instead of the rubber sleeve).To keep the tubes down, if need be, I have a cunning plan that will involve cutting tight-fitting ‘O' rings which I will stretch around the top ‘necked' end of the tubes and then join them again with super glue thereby wedging the tubes downward.
BTW - if I was going to do a running fix (bodge) I'd move the tubes as far down as I could and tighten a cable tie around the top of the tube - maybe with some Evostik or a band of cycle inner tube or similar to help the cable tie grip the tube. I might even try with a Jubilee clip instead of the cable tie but really I'd take the head off and do it correctly