I've done so privately but I'd like to thank Boyd openly with his help in sending me a complete rocker-cover for my CB250RSA. As with all used spares they can be a bit of a 'Curate's Egg'. Boyd's cover + 1 rocker shaft + my rockers and the job looks to be a good-'un, just waiting on David Silver for some seals etc. Getting the rocker-shaft securing dowels out was a bit of a game, I used a 'Dremel' thingy to undercut two grooves diametrically opposite each other, clamped on a pair of 'Mole' grips, secured the cover in my vice, placed a 'drift' on the grips and resorted to a hammer (the use of which Honda recommend for their unrealistic method of removal).Unsurprisingly after thirty years the dowels were reluctant to oblige however after a short while they realised the futility of resisting and succumbed without any damage to other parts. The Neoprene ring seals on the shafts had the flexibility of 'Bakelite' and were actually smaller in diameter than the shafts due to multiple heatings and coolings and age, not suprising that they leaked.The dowels are a 'slide-fit' in the cover but are a determined interference fit in the shafts. It really is a brutal business getting them out, one that Honda could easily have avoided by tapping,say, 6mm threads in the cover and inserting set screws, much more of an engineering solution.
