My 50cc ET-2 Build Project

My ET2 Build Project: Making adjustments

With the closing of my electrical shop and my woodworking shop, I am some what short on space to work in. Everything that could be boxed up was. Which included all the old and new scooter parts. I rented two 10' X 25'storage units. One unit was to house all the large woodworking equipment - saws, planers, sawdust handling equipment, air compressors, router tables, etc. And, the large equipment that I had bought to work on my scooter. Things like a 20gal parts washer, 20ton hydraulic press, some tire mounting equipment, etc. .

The back 12' of the second unit was to store my ET2 parts and the front 13' was to store the maintenance items, fenders, lifejackets, carpet, wire and cable for a boat. All my hand tools that were needed to work on the scooter and the boat are in the front 13ft.

The units have no power or lighting so it will be difficult to work there - which was bad for doing scooter stuff but not to bad for working on the boat. When I needed to do something on the boat I get the tools needed and go down to the marina. The boat has 120/250v power and air conditioning running 7/24. So the boat part of it worked out nice.

The problem was working on the scooter - I need to sort through the parts I had and order the stuff I needed. To accomplish this task, I shutdown my small air brushing studio and turned it in to a scooter parts sorting facility. Originally I thought it would be closed for maybe a month - two at the most - that was five months ago and no end in sight.

The following are pictures of what my studio looks like as a parts sorting room. I left all the air brushing equipment in place thinking I would at least do some work.

Guess there are some scooter parts that have spread to my workstation area. The part in the right photo low right is the back half of the handlebar cover the front half is in the lower left side of the photo. In the left photo, my stator is just about under the monitor, Stage6 SKF Crank Bearing or maybe its the NTN crank bearings just above the keyboard.

My new workbench

The above photo shows my new cardboard box style "workbench" and only part of the scooter project I can currently work on - the handlebars (everything else is at the powder coaters). I am trying to fit a front radial master cylinder and a rear brake foldable cable set. And, yes the levers are different colors.

I wanted a some what average looking Vespa ET2 scooter - something that would not get a second look - so I picked my handlebars to go a little crazy with. Cut away some of the plastic - tuck the brake actuators into the plastic covers - the only thing that would be noticeable would be the red brake fluid reservoir sticking out above the "Corvette Yellow" covers. As you can see it's not working out - I gave up on "some" tucking and went into major cutting. At least it was a break from all the scooter parts sorting, ordering & packaging.

Thanks Larry

My ET2 Build Project: Wrapping this phase up

Got my last order in from SIP the end of last week. It's not the last order I need to make it's just the last order in this group. Most every thing else will not need this much attention. The two large areas I have yet to work are the electrical and frame/body stuff.

Going to sort through the last order, tomorrow and clean-up the mess I have created in my studio. There is so much stuff every where it is getting hard to move around. Got a small studio project to work on while I wait for the powder coaters to finish up.

Went by East Coast Powder Coating yesterday to get my ET2 CVT Cover - forgot to vent it before turning it over to them. They were doing some prep work on the cover and my engine. So that should be coming to closure soon.

They have made some good head way on the body - still not ready for the "Corvette Yellow" but very close. They have laid three coats of base generic yellow on it now. They lay one down and sand that down and lay on another and sand that - taking out imperfection in the surface each time. This should be the last of the base coats. The sanded areas on this third coat were smooth not a mark in it. When they are done with this last base coat, they will finish with the Corvette Yellow.

My latest workbench - tailgate

In my driveway under a shade tree - dodging bird shit and squirrel nuts.

 

My 50cc ET2 Build Project - COST To Date

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Main Suppliers

S.I.P in Landsberg, Germany - unbelievable order building system via a notepad - select the part you want -send it to your notepad - a line item is created that includes a photo of the part, a description and the cost of the part - build your order over several weeks - when ready to order - print out your notepad for your records and send the whole thing to your cart - pay for the order. Four to five days shipping from Germany. Communication from them was the best I have experienced. Major Vespa parts distributor with a large inventory of parts. Prices - reasonable. About the only negative is the backorder process. And, that is only limited by their ability to get the backordered part in and shipped. Web-site "so-so" on the exciting side - makes up for the lack of luster by giving you solid features that can help build and keep track of your small or larger orders - it just took me a lot of time to figure out how to use the site - it is huge. They definitely have a ICON on my desktop.

Scooter-Attack - in Some Where, Germany - Supplier for the majority of the Stage6 and Polini stuff I bought. Order processing, shipping and communication above average for scooter parts suppliers. Shipping times and communications were for the most part good. Web-site a little too flashy for me - had a hard to getting down to the part I was looking for - It was late in the game that I found out they have basic fix and repair parts - thought they were more into the major brand name stuff. Overall they may have been able to supply some of the stuff that I ordered automatically from S.I.P. They do have an ICON on my desktop.

PM Tuning, UK - - Were probably the best of the UK suppliers but were limited in Vespa ET2 parts. However, what they had were normally hard to find stuff. They were less to non-existent on the communication side - prices good with average shipping times. Web-site straight forward - could get to the area you need to be in quickly They also have an ICON on my desktop.

Software

If you are going to place large orders that need some level of management, extensive manipulation and editing of PDF files, you can not beat PDF-XChange Editor .  They have a free to non-commercial user version. But, I like the program so much I bought the full featured version.

more to come

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