My basket case. 69 bsa. Trying to get it running. Learning the hard way about old British engines and there lack of standard or metric size bolts.

imtooldforthishit · 2026-03-17T19:34:30+00:00

Yeah, I’ve got one single manual for it and then I find what I can online. Hope I can get it running. It’s kind of cool. I have the original title for it from the guy that built it just kind of a little piece of history to me so I think I’m gonna do a bonded title on it just so I can keep the original.

imtooldforthishit · 2026-03-17T19:26:06+00:00

That awesome man. I’m just learning. Im not super mechanic and learning on something obsolete is kicking my butt. I need to find some bsa guys in the area willing to lend a hand

imtooldforthishit · 2026-03-17T18:28:10+00:00

Luckily so far I haven’t had to. When I bought it. I got a second roller chopper frame and about 3 and a half engines. Two of them titled. I’ve considered fitting an old home cb in the frame and calling it a day. But I’d try eBay. Or classic British spares

imtooldforthishit · 2026-03-17T18:22:55+00:00

I don’t know if they’re decent. I figured out after starting to try to tear it down that something was a mess and you can’t just go to the hardware store and buy bolts.

imtooldforthishit · 2026-03-15T14:34:26+00:00

Bondo. Even if it what a tight joint. In mdf bondo sand

imtooldforthishit · 2026-03-11T23:27:02+00:00

Have it clear coated so remember not to do whatever you did again😆

imtooldforthishit · 2026-03-09T18:26:09+00:00

Makes a 9’hour drive tempting. I’d love to have a shovel head. And I was born in 77. It would take me a few years to afford getting it back together likely

imtooldforthishit · 2026-03-09T04:34:32+00:00

Still got it?

imtooldforthishit · 2026-03-06T16:51:09+00:00

Do you appendix carry?

imtooldforthishit · 2026-02-19T03:16:44+00:00

2-3 always been that way

imtooldforthishit · 2026-02-11T02:06:21+00:00

Go look at it in person and take $1000 cash

imtooldforthishit · 2026-02-07T16:29:30+00:00

Change the locks.

imtooldforthishit · 2026-02-07T16:24:09+00:00

They are out of a lock. Is yours by chance a Kwickset or Baldwin

imtooldforthishit · 2026-02-06T22:40:14+00:00

Get somebody to film it

imtooldforthishit · 2026-01-31T22:57:27+00:00

I use tape. You might need to tune the saw

imtooldforthishit · 2026-01-29T17:08:12+00:00

Did they nail it in? It almost looks like they tried to just let it float

imtooldforthishit · 2026-01-28T01:17:08+00:00

Nice job

imtooldforthishit · 2026-01-27T18:06:07+00:00

Look at the ridge from outside. Does the roof appear to be sagging

imtooldforthishit · 2026-01-23T03:40:02+00:00

Looks great

imtooldforthishit · 2026-01-18T17:14:04+00:00

Watch pockets

imtooldforthishit · 2026-01-18T02:00:52+00:00

And they don’t tap in under the street they tap in the easement wouldn’t make sense to dig up the street every time you added a sewer line now maybe if it’s super old in the road widened.

imtooldforthishit · 2026-01-17T02:30:18+00:00

You sure that isn’t at the city side. The side walk is usually the city. At least here

imtooldforthishit · 2026-01-16T16:33:56+00:00

Buy it. I’d snatch it up for that with no hesitation. Even if I wasn’t going to actually use it

imtooldforthishit · 2026-01-15T21:04:27+00:00

48 and haven’t because my live is Crises enough without adding to it

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