The RGM belt drive in this bike, my 63 norton atlas, was made
from a 32mm AT-10 commando pulley cut down to 25mm. The 980mm was
gotten locally from a belt supplier. The standard RGM commando clutch drum
was used. The standard solid fiber friction plates were used. An additional
steel clutch plate to make it operate deeper in the soft region of the
diaphragm clutch.
The commando clutch hub was supplied by RGM, already modified
to be used with an atlas/dommi transmission shaft.
The following pix is of the side of my bike viewing the primary side.
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The problem of biggest concern was that the clutch drum wobbled more
than 6 drunk sailors. It was discovered that the hub's welded in locating
washer was not perpendicular to the shaft. A measurement in the back of
the clutch hub, on opposite sides of this small bore.showed that there
was .006" diference of depth to the washer. There was about
.035" of wobble on the edge of the clutch hub. The drum wobble seemed
enormous.
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The weld that was retaining the washer was cut out on a lathe.
The hub was trued in the lathe and then a skim cut was made to reveal that
rather than a weld shrinkage/pull that was originally suspected, that the
bore job was indeed at fault and enough of a cut was made to square
up the bottom of the washer pocket.
A new washer was made of oil hardening steel for reinstallation into
the hub. In the pix you can see at the blue 6 oclock position the machining
has cut clean new metal, and at red 12oclock it has not finished cleaning
up as evidenced by the darker crescent shaped pattern.
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A fixture to help hold the washer in place for welding.
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The reworked clutch hub with hardened washer is now down to .003" of
wobble. Of course you don't think i would fail to put one of my atlas
clutch rod seals!
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The next chore was to space out the alternator. The original alternator
stator holder casting had been damaged by a primary "chain come off
excursion". A Norvil MC casting was obtained and it's installation
was attempted. I made my own stator stud/spacers .400" long stand off length,
1/4-20tpi studs inboard to screw into the helicoiled housing and 5/16-24tpi
studs outboard to centralize the stator. When all was assembled, the rotor
was rubbing against the stator. A genuine norton casting was "borrowed"
from my 68 dunstall, the studs were installed on it and the rotor had ample
clearance all around.
To conclude, the Norvil MC casting lacked manufacuring accuracy
for use with my belt drive. It will likely work OK in a standard primary
where the location of the stator is not affected by the precise location
of 1/4" retention studs.
damaged original and new norvil MC casting