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« Reply #90 on: March 24, 2011, 08:30:46 PM » |
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Looking good....did u do the cutout in the tank yourself?
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« Reply #91 on: March 24, 2011, 08:39:46 PM » |
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cut it out, started small then bigger a bit at a time till 5 mm from nearest bit. had to get it welded and steel rolled to go in at guy who does my stainless work cos iv only got stick welder. got impression he wished he hadn't seen it cos thin metal, said the fire extinguisher one was easy.
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« Reply #92 on: March 24, 2011, 08:55:59 PM » |
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I had to do the same on my bike project. The diversion 600 engines air filters stick up in the air,so i had to cut the back end out to accomadate them.I think the tank will only hold about 2 gallon of fuel now. Dont care though cuz ime not gonna go touring over europe on it....  |
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« Reply #93 on: March 25, 2011, 05:06:05 PM » |
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love the tanks dobber they look brill with the cut outs
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« Reply #94 on: March 26, 2011, 03:02:22 PM » |
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gonna be moving the trailer on that i used as a bench soon, all details in for sale section.
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« Reply #95 on: April 05, 2011, 08:51:35 AM » |
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started on the rear brake cylinder last night, got a defender clutch unit as recommended by haggis [could still use those axel tubes haggis] off evilbay for 15 quid delivered, seems a big unit but found a spot for it. cut a plate and drilled it etc
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« Reply #96 on: April 05, 2011, 08:54:11 AM » |
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hoping i can polish the unit but not sure it will
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« Reply #97 on: April 05, 2011, 08:57:59 AM » |
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tacked plate in place after lining it up with a straight edge [was getting late], gonna have a long 6mm rod from pedal arm to master cylinder but as its dead straight cant see a problem with it bowing. anyone know better??
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« Reply #98 on: April 05, 2011, 09:04:02 AM » |
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got a elbow off a gas ram i use at work, like a tail gate ram. bolted straight thru arm on brake lever, can then use threaded 8mm bar to screw in end of elbow and weld to a stainless rod to go to cylinder. the elbow has all round movement so will not try to strain angle of the rod.
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« Reply #99 on: April 05, 2011, 09:08:44 AM » |
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no flash, batterys dead. but can see idear.. the arm on the cylinder is in a bit of a ball joint set up behind the rubber so even if not bang straight should still work.
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« Reply #100 on: April 05, 2011, 03:00:04 PM » |
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The longer the rod, obviously the more it's going to flex. Might be worth adding a couple of guide eyelets for it to run through.
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« Reply #101 on: April 05, 2011, 04:00:52 PM » |
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put some 8mm threaded bar in to the ball elbow manky on the brake lever bit, on the cylinder end its threaded but in old money, so welded a 8mm nut and the old money nut together, ground em round on bench grinder and screwed the long threaded bar right into the elbow, lined it up with the cylinder threaded bit thus joining em with the two thread sizes. goes into elbow bout an inch so room to screw it out so other end goes into old size end of joint. doesn't seem to flex but passes within a few mm of upright part of frame so can do what you said which will stop someone standing on it or anything else equally as dumb.
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« Reply #102 on: April 05, 2011, 04:03:10 PM » |
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finally got round to welding headstock up today, looks plenty strong enough.
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« Reply #103 on: April 12, 2011, 09:28:06 PM » |
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got the second hand brake plate sorted, so one side has handbrake and doubles as rear foot rest, right hand one is just footrest. looks balanced.
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« Reply #104 on: April 12, 2011, 09:31:11 PM » |
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timber bit is a mock up off proposed battery box, want the curve under prop to match cut outs in tanks and all curves in frame as apposed to squaring it off.
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