Why get bored and to ruin itself has to restore Sandcast??
Here is the solution!!

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Yes, we can suppose two where three possibilities, but how to explain this cover clutch which I am going to call "9/10" which has my opinion does not make very serious for the look...  We do not have handlebars anymore from now on, but do not be worried because we are going to put a broom!!
Only for it, one can exclude returns of workshop.
It is very difficult to have informations on these Sandcasts.
I think sincerely that there were some also in other countries, but regrettably they were not listed..
Here is a photo of Sandcast E-1014149 and if you look in detail, she also has this famous cover "9/10".
She has her front fender mud before with double cuts and his exhaust muffler " HM CB750 " gets the same music which bewitched that the "HM300"...
And the best it is because she traveled only 2300 kms or approximately 200 miles for you because she was stored and almost forgotten during 40 long years...

Here are some numbers of engine Sandcast only listed in France after the official period Sandcast E-1007414 and baptized on this forum "French Sandcasts" They are in series 1014000 and 1017000...
All the engines Sandcast listed below has the clutch covers  of the engines Diecast after E-1007414 with 10 holes but with only 9 holes, this anomaly is visible on the last two photos.
The explanation in that is I consider simple, they did not have a cluth cover with 9 holes in the stock...
The demand was very important and they opted for this fast solution because it was necessary to produce and to sell.

This Sandcasts 14000/17000 has were sold in France approximately for the period of March has April 1970.
A photo is joined for every number of engine...



E-1014138/VIN-1014046 ?? (Very strong suspicions that the 1st engine of origin was an engine Sandcast..)
E-1014143/VIN-1014060
E-1014149/VIN-1014014
E-1014170/VIN-1017109 (no matching numbers)
E-1015552
E-1017116/VIN-1016877
E-1017118/VIN-1041129 (no matching numbers)
E-1017135/  no frame
E-1017144/VIN-1003541 (no matching numbers)
E-1017164/VIN-1015880   
E-1017180/VIN-   ??
E-1017193/VIN-1016884
E-1017196/VIN-1016877
E-1017199/VIN-1016882
E-1017417/VIN-1017272

 
 

Hello,

Here is he seems to me photos of first model " type Early " of cover clutch Sandcast.
His thickness is incredible and its weight is 236.5 grs (8,34 ounces) by comparison with
the later cover cluth the weight of which is 115.3 grs (4.06 ounces).
His thickness was divided by 2...

He was not painted has the inside of material anti-vibration (style Blackson)
Apparently the chromium-plating does not have was redone and seems original.

Who has a cover clutch identical on its Sandcast?
Have you other informations? Thanks for it..

Greetings.

Gérard

I restore a " French Sandcasts " number E-1017118.
I open this topic that I think that it is maybe a great information..

I have almost certainty that Point Cover of the first series Sandcast (Early) were not stamped "Made in Japan".
On parts list of 69-4 E7 Contact Breaker, no detail of "Made in Japan" in the drawing.. Why?
On parts list of the beginning of the year 1970, we see curiously the "Made in Japan" appear in the drawing??

I don't think at all that it is an oversight of the graphic designer because we know all the rigor of the Japanese people for this kind of small details..

If you look very carefully at the covers of the photo 011 jpg you see that the differences are glaring for embossing and dimensions...

In a French magazine dating July 1969 an article on the presentation of the CB750 Honda (pré-production) in the
Importateur Honda France and there curiously also no trace of this Made in Japan on the point cover...
Curious coincidence or irrefutable evidence?

Please look at the pics at the different height (approximately 8 mm), at the holes of screws and embossing
with subtle differences..
How many Sandcast were made with this point cover with no stamped " Made in Japan " ??
100? Who can claim to know the exact number..?

Vic World (WORLD MOTORCYCLES) contacted me in PM because for him, this point cover would have only equipped the pré-production..
I do not believe that it is the case, because I have just found in my archives a French magazine dated September 1969.
There, ...we speak no more prototype...It is the analysis of Sandcast of the man in the street...

On the photo below we see clearly the point cover is not stamped " Made in Japan "...
On the photo of the top we see clearly the marking " Made in Japan " on the cover of alternator...

We can thus deduct from it without making a mistake that the first series Sandcast of the people had
a point cover not stamped.

To you to judge...And I am taker of any information on the subject.