Airbox intake housing

I finally got my hands on this missing item. A bit pricey but I decided to do it for motivational purposes. The rubber hose can be obtained easily as they are reproduced. I thought it would be an easy job but I was wrong. I did not had it sanded and sprayed as I first wanted to have it checked. I ended up removing the rear wheel, the mudguard but that was still not sufficient. So I ended up unscrewing the middle section as well. Only to find out it did not fit. I was baffled, is this items different somehow. It's an airbox housing from a series 2 but I was expecting it would fit a series 1 as well. I need to have this further checked but I'm very unhappy about this

This is long dragging story since I posted this blog:

https://erwinisomilano.blogspot.com/2023/07/brake-and-clutch-handles.html

Since then I had made various attempts to source these hanldes. I will spare you the details and efforts I made. And by now I thought I had sourced them newly. I was doing a reverse image lookup and these popped up. They were used on a Vespa Struzzo! They looked identical and immediately ordered them:

Today I checked them and turned out they are slightly different. As a matter of fact I had ordered these about 2 years ago or so.  So now I had another useless pair :-(

BUT I had another pair ordered back then, again another slightly different pair. And that pair potentially could be modified to make it fit. So now I took the liberty to make an attempt. Here you can see all the different models. On the right, is the correct original, in the middle the Vespa lookalike, and on the left another lookalike (Lambretta? I'm unsure as I don't recall it). 

You would think the middle one is the closest, but it's to thin so it will fall through. Also it's slightly shorter (not a big deal) and one side is to small as well.

In any case, I adjusted one using a drill and my dremel cutter. And somehow this all worked out nicely to my surprise. It's not perfect but it's functional. 

I adjust the frontbrake cable and now that's working again

Now I need to do the other side as well. Fingers crossed!  I will make some more photo's on how I did it  and will try to look up which model handles they were used for.

Dutch Iso brochure 1961

 Yesterday on the Dutch Marketplace someone offered a Dutch Iso brochure for sale. I got outbid and it was sold for € 15,-

It's a brochure from 1961 by the Dutch importer "Beers".

Iso Rivolta keychain holder

A few weeks back I had my yearly car trip to Italy. One of the guys who participated had bought a Iso Lele! So I looked up some potential adresses we could visit since we were recently close in the area. And I didn't expect to visit all these place. I drove along with my Fiat 130 Coupe. How about this great shot of us together somewhere on a Swiss Alpine pass:

So yes, we did visit the old factory in Bresso:

Of course we had a look at the Iso Rivolta mansion but the gates were closed. Some other places were visited as well but we ran out of time. So the next day we visited Il Bottegone in Clusone. In this workshop one of the old Iso factory crew members purchased lots of stock when Iso went bankrupt and now he and his son are carrying out maintenance on these automobiles.

Luckily his son did speak English very well which made commuincation easy.

Clearly they were only into the automobiles. So when I asked about the Iso Scooters I got ahold of the following person: Mario Gerli. I had already obtained his details from an old business card but the phone number and email are no longer valid. But now I have his mobile number and so I tried to get in contact with him via Whatsapp, but no luck so far:

Next we were gifted this great keychain holder. I consider this a very cool item and I'm now using it for the Iso Scooter keys :-)

Another Item I recently purchased is this item, a nice retro Marshall mini amplifier to store your keys:

Surflex per Freni per Frizioni - 48 M 13 - Iso Scooters 150 Tipo F - Clutch

On the Dutch online Marketplace I spotted someone offering various NOS clutches, including this one. 
So I purchased them immediately, thinking my ISO was a 150 tipo F. Although the package says 4 pieces in Italian it only contained only 2. If I see it correctly there are at least 3 required - item 25 in the diagram. In the part nr list there are indicated 2 different nrs, 200074/A  Fino al motore N 3300 and 20223 Dal motore N 3301

I knew the first series had a slightly different engine and apparently this is one of those items which is different - despite it's a 150 Tipo F

As for the company Surflex they still exist today: http://www.surflexclutches.com/

And I was able to lookup the clutches for the ISO models. On page 2 you will see the clutches for the ISO scooters:

http://www.surflexclutches.com/Surflexclutches.com/Classic_files/Iso%20%28Veterane%29.pdf

For serie 1 in 1957 they list 48 M 11 and for series 2 (called Diva) from 1958 - 1962 its 48 M 13

And apparently all of this is still available and listed in their pricelist:

http://www.surflexclutches.com/Surflexclutches.com/Price%20Lists_files/Listino%20Moto%20%28Rev.%2029%2001_24%29.pdf

I'm not sure regarding the condition of my clutch but this is good news. I will keep this package for nostalgic reasons. 

Compartment lock - Part III - Serrature Milano Edal - chiave

This is a follow up on a previous blog:

https://erwinisomilano.blogspot.com/2023/08/compartment-lock-part-ii-serrature.html

This week I finally have received the lock back from the key smith "Luke".
It''s fixed with a new set of keys. It was a long wait and expensive but I'm very pleased with it.

I have mounted it today and looks good and works OK. Nice!

Dutch instruction manual - series 1 - Iso 150 cc - Beers NV

Luck was on my side this week. On the Dutch marketplace I spotted this instruction manual for sale in almost new condition. I got in contact with the seller and he offered it to me for a very fair price. 

Did not expect to ever find a Dutch original instruction manual for the first series. Wow!