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« on: April 25, 2007, 01:03:27 PM » |
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If you've been paying attention lately, you'll know Saddlebags is a precision engineer extraordinaire. He's self employed, sub contracting for a local engineering company, (who's manager happens to be into hotrods), & has the run of the workshop to work more or less what hours he wants.
A very clever chappie when it comes to twiddling knobs & pressing buttons on CNC gear. He's been supplying the Basingstoke Monkey troop with all manner of wondrously shiny one-off bits & pieces for the last 6 months or so.
Now it's pay-back time!
He wants a trike. Not a Reliant, but an automatic Vauxhall Chevette motor. His brother runs a car restoration business specialising in "new classics" -all those 60s & 70s cars that were common as muck when we were teenagers but have disappeared now -hence the Shove-it engine.
So yesterday evening Ska Man, Flap & I duly gathered at SaddleBags' place & began laying out another Manky trike frame. Similar to the rest but with a few alterations to accomodate the bigger engine & longer box. We bent tubes, burnt ourselves with the welder, ate cake & generally messed about, while he got on with machining my steering stem & yokes.
In a couple of hours we'd got as far as deciding engine height, bending the down tubes & tacking on the headstock. We're going to cut & slug the bottom rails cos it's easier & quicker to produce the kick up to the axle clamps that way, rather than trying to go from headstock to axle in a single tube length. A bit unnerving having a professional engineer watching over your shoulder while you're faffing about with wobbly bits of tube, but being able to say "cut a bit of tube that length & fishmouth the ends on one of your magic machines", & being handed back a perfectly fitting tube a few minutes later's a bit of a novelty. Beats buggering about with hacksaws & grinders any day.
We'll be back there this evening, when we'll hopefully get it up on 3 wheels. It's due to be on show at the Shepton Mallet show in 2 week's time! As an unfinished project, alongside my own, obviously!
Nige cuts the top tubes to take the headstock while Flap ...err, inspects the internal bore of a tube off-cut.
Ever professional, that's us.
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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2007, 01:06:46 PM » |
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whats the shiney things on the axle then do tell   |
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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2007, 01:07:37 PM » |
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Axle clamps  |
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« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2007, 01:09:52 PM » |
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why thankyou (o) knowledgeable one |
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« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2007, 01:10:58 PM » |
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Nah not really. I joined them last night and asked the same thing. Sure Manky has a closer pic to add |
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« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2007, 01:11:11 PM » |
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The biggest, chunkiest axle clamps in the World. Mr Bags is a chunky kinda guy -one of those rugger playing types, & wants his trike to have a squat, beefy look to it, so everything's big & chunky. I'll take a pic of the clamps later for you. Front halves are steel & the backs are ally. He thinks he might recess the backs to take the rear lights. We think he's way too clever for the likes of us!
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« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2007, 01:11:39 PM » |
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See told you |
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« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2007, 01:13:03 PM » |
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« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2007, 01:13:54 PM » |
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The yokes are only temporary & came with the Kwacka forks. He's already machined up a pair more worthy of his talents.
Anyone notice one of the rear tyres is on the wrong way round?
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« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2007, 01:15:08 PM » |
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errrrrrrr pass next question  |
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« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2007, 01:15:53 PM » |
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He's got a free exhibitor's ticket for the Shepton Mallet show on the strength of this being at least up on 3 wheels, so we've got to get a move on!
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« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2007, 01:18:24 PM » |
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so what are you doing on here wasting time yabbering for ,work work oh and plus your own trike to sort out  must be a popular guy |
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« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2007, 01:21:26 PM » |
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I know, I know! Supposed to be smoothing off the welds on my handlebars so I can nip them over to the powder-coaters with the yokes this afternoon. I suspect they won't get there till tomorrow, (my day off). Then back at SaddleBags' shiny things factory this evening. O.K, I'm off to the garage. Later doods.  |
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« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2007, 01:22:49 PM » |
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must be a real bonus having all that room to work in comfortably ::)not like my tight garage  |
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« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2007, 01:25:40 PM » |
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They still managed to trip over each other. Even Saddlebags asked how they manage to work together in the garage |
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