by bjhart » Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:24 pm
lots of cosmetic and service type parts are now available from Casa (badges, cables rubbers, seat covers, electrics etc) with the range growing all the time, there are some specialist dealers in the UK who stock a lot of the Casa shaft drive parts, such as Scootopia, scooter surgery...
Any other bits not available as remade parts, castings , engine parts etc I have always managed to find either on this forum, ebay or the likes of Mr Chambers, in many cases even NOS parts... there just isn't the demand so prices are often better than you might think, I recently paid £100 for a NOS d125 gearbox on here. not bad for something over 60 years old.
Building of the engines is not always quite so straight forward, and you do need some special tools, although there are a few experts dotted around and much help available on here, there is not much in the way of a modern manual available only old innocent and period publications (in the Queens English of the time) and the normal service manuals from the 70's which are ok but don't deal with all the versions in detail (a Stickies type manual for the early models would be a god send....) Vittorio's restoration guide does cover these models as well...
Anyway I have reasonably successfully restored a model F & D125 and I love them, ok they are slow but they are great fun to ride if you are not in a hurry!