2 graduations 400 miles from home!

All the members is what makes this forum work.  Without everyone's knowledge coming together, a lot of this information would be lost.  Hopefully us younger guys can keep this going.  I have tried to get a couple of the Simplex old timers to come on and post some of the vast knowledge they have, but without luck.


Rick

As memory serves, it was just aluminum without paint.  The brass one I have only seen on a Sportsman.  I could be wrong about all this.

I was asking about the one on the sportsman.

Bill Erickson had the 1952 decals available on his site.  I don't know if he still has any left, but I would send him an email and ask.  Wayne has the Simplex Automatic ones available.

Can't tell for sure but it looks like your crank stuffer is on inside out. Does your cover protrude outward from the block?  Is that a dimple on the side of it? If so,  turn it around and put dimple up towards piston and in line with cylinder. I don't think an 'M' will run hardly at all without the stuffer in place.

Tom, that is just a wood cover that James made.  Hopefully he has the stuffer under there.

How thick is that steel you are using for a motor plate?

We may never know.  There is no factory documentation.  The best we can do is narrow down the years by changes that people have observed over the years. The last model that has ever been documented was frame number 18186.  We know that Simplex ceased production of these bikes in 1960 and they were only building a dozen or two a month at the end.

Since our numbers are within 250 of the last one built, that means very late 1959 or early 1960 to me.  I will register mine as a 1960, unless someone can convince me otherwise.