hello from victoria australia

[s900t8v]

hey guys

my name is ed, im a 27 year old guy thats into interesting things mostly being
- old cars - I drive a trionic 5.5 84 saab 900 turbo
- old motorcycles - I have a couple of 1950s puch split single motorcycles
- I sell puch parts because my dad used to be a parts distributor and now he has a huge stock of parts, in doing this I have been roped into doing restos and repairs on various puch bikes (its just a hobby!)




my 175 just needs a tank to be complete - they are normally chromed and this is what I need to metal finish - ambitious oh yeah,,,


my other puch that is being left mostly patina (except for parts that were missing)


resto I did for a guy, engine rebuild, zinc plating, painting, powder coating all done myself.

I wanted to join the site because I dont know enough about metal finishing - wait I do know one thing! you gotta have good tools (I started with cheap hammer and dolly set and its caused more problems than its solved) ive spent a fair bit of time reading and watching youtube, and having a go too! with pretty good results for a rookie but I think this site will help a lot! theres a difference between getting a dent out and getting a panel flat enough for chrome plating and thats the kind of thing I am into, I have about 5 puch split singles that I want to do and they all need tank repair!



this is how beautiful they look when they're restored!

stoked to have found a forum!

cheers

Ed

[cliffrod]

Welcome to the forum, Ed.

Your bikes look great. I've had a few twingles over the years, although never a plunger frame model. Whatever version of the bike it was, the Puchs like these are generally presented to be a 1942 here in the states. The factory street number address on the head badge is 19042 with a rivet right through the "0". Anytime an old 1942 motorcycle popped up in trading papers, 99 times out of 100 that's exactly what they had regardless of the actual model year.

[Peter Tommasini]

Hi Ed welcome to the forum
Peter

[s900t8v]

thanks guys!

the patina is 1951 Puch 250 TF

and the blue is 175 SV I made custom crankshaft bearings for it myself and have done some performance work, I cant wait to break it and ride it but i need the tank sorted lol!

There is another way out which is replacement tank sides.