My name is Finn Hammer, from Denmark, my Savage is a vintage 88 with 15K on the clock. I bought it just a month ago.

This place is a gem, the bike had covered the full 15K miles with a maladjusted carburettor, decellerating crackle and the occational embarassing caboom. This was cured by raising the needle the full spacer, thanks to suzukisavage.com, thank you all very much!

As a young man I was totally into bikes. that was 1970 to 75, then I stopped simply because I felt certain I would kill myself one day in a challenging corner. There were no speed limits back then and I thought I was Michael Hailwood.
Now, 47 years later, I feel moderately sure I can controll myself, and refrain from cornering at 45+ degrees, provided that I can still experience the thrill of accelleration.
I rode 2-stroke twins in the day, Yamaha YDS250, later a Kawasaki A7SS and I secretly coveted a BSA Gold Star.
I intend to modify my Savage to meet the performance of the Goldie, ride it as a Bobber but with clubman handlebars.
As you see I have a fair workshop, I am a retired toolmaker, and the thing on the floor is a 6-turbine, 9.6kW custom vacuum cleaner engine which I will use in the case that I have the gumption to do flow bench work.
The DR650 cam, as well as the associated rockers are already aquired.
The clutch slips so new plates have been ordered and Steven Lindmarks release cams are on the way.
Lancers carburettor is on the way too, and finally I am going to build the High flo quiet muffler.
What is left is the port work, which I am looking forward to doing.
So far so good. What you see else in the pic. is a Fusion reactor, some Tesla coils and a lathe, That pretty mush defines my hobbies.
Cheers, Finn Hammer

I see it now. Weird, that was.
Keep us posted.

Springman,
The attachment did not show up when I posted, possibly because it exeded the maximum size.
Aafter a resize, in edit post mode, it uploaded fine.

Cheers, Finn Hammer

All,
For the moment I can only figure out how to attach one file at the time, so here is the Fusor pic.
The fusor itself is the small cube furthest up in the picture, the rest, inside the frame is supporting equipment, such as vacuum pumps, valves, deuterium delivery system, couple of power supplies and vacuum gauges.
Low in the front is part of the high voltage system, a C-W multiplier which, driven by the switching supply, delivers up to 75kV @35mA.
Cheers, Finn Hammer

Greetings , You have some very cool toys. A Savage is such a low tech bike. You very clearly have more than what is needed as far as skills are concerned to build whatever you want. I’m very curious as to why you ended up here. Whatever the reason , welcome and I’m sure we can help if needed.

TheSneeze:
Building the fusion reactor seemed like the logical path after many years of investigating and building Tesla coils, and I basically did it to see if I could. Since I started meddling with high voltage power electronics, I wanted to try my hand at building a high voltage switching power supply, and that is the part of the project that gave me most satisfaction.
Ruttly:
Thank you for your kind words. Why I ended up here?
Since I bought me a Savage, I naturally want to know "all" about it, and this place soon stuck out in Google searches. I have not been disappointed.
DragBikeMike:
This is Denmark, and we have 3-phase 240V 16A as standard even in residential areas, so plenty power for long arcs and even suction power.
The vac is home built, I wanted me the shop vac that cannot be bought. 6 turbines. 2 on each phase. They are regulated by phase angle triac controllers. These controllers have their discrete potentiometers replaced by a 3-ganged rotary switch attenuator.
Each turbine draws 7A at full speed. 7x240x6 = 10.080kW
Pulling a vacuum on a fully closed throat, it pulls 0.7ATM = 122" H2O, and I think this is pretty much the stall pressure of a vacuum cleaner turbine, so no surprise here.
I made a quick lashup inlet "sortofequivalent": A baffle with 2 Ø33mm holes blanked off with a piece of G10, raised 9mm off the surface of the holes.
This resulted in a pressure of 0.8 Atm, or 81" H2O.
See the picture.
How do you measure pressure? We better use the same methods to get comparable numbers.
Yes, I have 20 steps on the attenuator, so 20 different speeds.

Cheers, Finn Hammer

TheSneeze wrote on 10/28/23 at 09:03:51:



You guys all impress me.

Mike, all:

I need to apologise about my comments on flow and pressures, I had only a vague idea about what a test bench really contains in detail. I will read up on that and get back with some more qualified stuff.
Mike, I am sure you are the expert here, and I am the novice. The latter is 100% fer sure.
Pressure units are a nightmare, to mention a few: Pascal, Torr, Bar, Microns, mmHg, mmH2o,  and the list goes on.
When I wrote the conversion from fraction of atmospheric to inches of water, I used an online converter, and obviously without checking the result. I am not used to using inches, and have no intuitive visualisation of the result, so I just wrote it, but you are correct, it is indeed285 inches. Anyway, I will read up on flow bench construction and theory, and blend in with the methods and units commonly used.

Cheers, Finn Hammer