Thanks cardan and Eddie for your good wishes and kind words.
A little luck is definitely handy for these big conversions - one small hiccup can take a whole day to resolve.

Assuming no new issues arise over the weekend, the start time will be:

UTC, Time Zone - Tue, 21 May 2024 at 1:00 am

In local times...
London, U.K - Tue, 21 May 2024 at 2:00 am BST
Sydney, Aust. - Tue, 21 May 2024 at 11:00 am AEST
New York, USA - Mon, 20 May 2024 at 9:00 pm EDT
Los Angeles, USA - Mon, 20 May 2024 at 6:00 pm PDT
Hong Kong, H.K. - Tue, 21 May 2024 at 9:00 am HKT
Berlin, Germany - Tue, 21 May 2024 at 3:00 am CEST

Finish time is uncertain but approximately 3-4 days will hopefully cover it.
As mentioned above, the Forum will still be viewable, but in read-only mode during that time.
Once the new server destination registers with the domain name server used by your device, you will see the new site and can log in and post as normal.
Will post updates using the news line at the top of the page (appears in blue text).

Here's an image of a recent test site to give you an idea what it looks like.

Lovely! Have you made the links etc? What is the price, please?
Thanks

Yes hot day, left to dry and sprayed thoroughly with Mechoil before going back in the shed. Plenty more cleaning and paint preservation to do on it yet.

.... The underside view (above) shows a slightly darker surround - that is a chamfer
 of about 10 degrees on the underside of the board. The holes for the fixing bolts for the fittings were drilled and the bolts pulled into the timber before the lino was glued to the top.

  Hope this helps,
                          Eddie.

Very interesting about the chamfer on the underside of the 1912 footboards, Eddie. I have never seen any originals (edit - in person) so didn't know this existed! :-). I have no idea if this feature was carried over to the later years. In the picture "footboard A" which is a 1913 or 1914 2 3/4hp there appears (?) to be a gap between the support tube and the underside of the footboard - I had not noticed this before you mentioned about the chamfer - so maybe you are onto something there?!. I did have some pictures of some original footboards that were on e-bay a few years ago but unfortunately cannot find them......I found the link I had to the advert but when I went into ebay to look at the pictures they were well and truly expired...such is life!

I had a quick look through some period pictures of 2 3/4hp footboards (circa 1913-14) and these are the best I could find. I think the wider bracket (599D) at the front of the footboard would have been used when the brake pedal and/or clutch pedal is used at the front of footboard to help locate the pedal on the rest? Hard to find good pictures tho'!.

EW-Ron, the little pedal shown is the rear brake pedal and on the models it is used on, is usually mounted on a bracket (619D) which also doubles as the rear engine mount.

https://www.douglasmotorcycles.net/index.php?topic=6802.msg25750#msg25750 has some more information of this subject. On Doogle's bike, this is missing and the pedal has simply been mounted onto the footboard. (Edit - Cutout on RHS footboard seems to indicate it did have the bracket 619D and little pedal mounted on it at some stage in the past....)

Picture footboard D is included as it shows the approximate spacing of the fasteners that hold on the brass edge strips.

Cheers

Hutch

Couldn't help noticing these on the adjacent Barn Find 2¾hp Restoration thread
Later than 1913 but ...

(what is that little heel ? peddle )





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