skunkworks

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So it's back together, and look no bits left over so bonus

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You cutting keys now?

Yeah..with his skills and talent....Bunnings have snapped him up lol

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Originally Posted by Nudie

You cutting keys now?

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Well yes, the key to any successful internal combustion
4 stroke engine, the humble poppet valve.....

Ello Poppet.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4kdjPhmQA0k

well even misses poppet needs a mister tuner soooooooo
here is a seat cutter to match......... this one needs some parts
I am yet to find, but have a back up plan.

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workshop upgrades continue, material racking and welding gear shelve finished
I used 25mm mdf precut then routered the edges, cost a bit but more than happy with the result

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now I have my fab table backi can spend my lonely Saturday nights doing much more interesting things
like to some test holes for the reamed tapper dowels I will be using to locate the main part of my frame jig.
Im using a mt2 tapper because the mt2-mt1 drill adaptors I will use for dowels are cheep as chips

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location tapered holes check........

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starting to set up for final positioning and welding preparation.......

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That is one hell of a cool set up mate! Nice work.

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Originally Posted by Gix11

That is one hell of a cool set up mate! Nice work.

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Thanks si, it keeps me out of mischief:-)

And what's wrong with mischief?

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And what's wrong with mischief?

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That I normally end up waking up cold, wet and alone in a pool of my own mess...........

so I keep finding uses for my fab table. I'm using 25mm precision ground bar as part of the set
up for weld out of this section of the frame jig. Needed a groove exactly half way for the plum bob,
set up made easy. Then when machining I noticed the brand new bar had a bend. Once I measured it
I was surprised to find it was actually 0.74mm bent. After some short panic I came up with this solution.
Rather chuffed to discover straightening it was way more easy than I could have hoped for.

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0.74mm. ....you engineer types....

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0.74mm. ....you engineer types....

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funny enough your not the first to say that bwahahaha

this set up is killing me.......

for the rest of the system to work properly these points have to be spot on and
trust me that is painful. Spot on is hard enough on one plane, two planes is a pain
but in three planes is just fucking horrible........
There is nothing i can do to stop it all moving a touch when its welded out even with a good weld sequence and strong clamping,so the closer
i am before i start the better.

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I was only going to use the mig wire to square the alignment to the center line
via triangulation, then i realised i could easily use some of the jig parts i used for the drag bike build to give me a second way of verifying.

It took almost 6 hours to weld but the frame jig main mounts are now welded........
Instead of pics, I took time lapse on the phone and created the first " Lynton land " clip
enjoy

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Fucking amazing, great work! Made me a bit dizzy though haha. :)

Grinder sparks and a X taped to a bikes headlight would see you being called a hipster, it's a slippery slope mate.....


Hahahaha.

Looks good though.

thanks barra, I got tied form all the laps as well lol

shhhhhhh be very very quite, we are hunting hipsters...... I will go ahead dan and walk amongst them,
learn their ways so we may destroy them......
All fucking hipsters must die.....

Ha ha.

so i have been looking for a valve spring tester on and off for a while
any of the good ones cost lots..... and while its not really a issue the cheep ones
cant handle this ex lab testing unit cam up for the same cash as a ebay cheepy's
the choice was clear.

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spent some more time on the fab table, i still need to finish the electrics and hydraulics
one of the electrical jobs was to make a new safety fence to suit the new top
it needed to be light but ridged, on a job at start of the year we needed some custom roofing flashing ordered
this happened to be bundled up with it all, I really dont know how that happened....
some cutting and some pop rivets later i have a safety fence, no switches on it yet but im getting there

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Was that easy sliding over the table to get it underneath once you put it together?

was a bit of a pain si but still easier than taking of a bra, I still have trouble with that :-)

You should stop wearing them then.

But they come in a pair with my frilly panties,

some more work on the safety fence, fitted the electrical switches to it on ally base plates i had siliconed on.
I copied the small ally arms and used electrical wire crimps instead of the wire crimped ones they had.
Some tig welded m6 bolts underside of the table gave me a adjustable hook point to hang the switch lines from.
In each underside corner the whole fence sits on m10 allthread that i had welded the nuts for in the very begining
when i was working on the raw table top. I always knew I would have to relieve the sheet metal to clear the removable
electrical power and control plug but I was particularly happy with the neat way it integrated into build.

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so i got sick of those hard to get to places with low light you fight with when welding.
you end up trying to get a light to shine in the right spot etc.... well no more, i improvised...
one 3.3 lipro battery cell check,
one charger to suit said battery check,
one high output cre led check
one small heat sink to suit said led
one switch and plugs to allow for charging and removal check
some solder and hot glue later....
well lets just say i think this is one of my better ideas.....

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also i hate the std hand piece switch found on most std tig hand pieces, so much so i riped it of ages ago and have been
only using the foot control. that is fine for std jobs but becomes a pain again in tight hard to reach places. i cant aford the
800 for the upgraded handpiece i would like so again i improvised..... small board mounted switch and some hot glue later
and im much happier

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You might be on to something there Lynton.

Low tech version - conduit clip and a LED torch:
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makes a big difference doesn't it ben, nice easy cheep solution you have there,
Si seems im not the only one lol

more up dates, finally picked up my pan brake but as i purchased it sight unseen
i ran in to a problem this end unloading. i cant complain as in truth this is the first thing
i have had to construct a way to lift off the trailer this end but thats what i had to do....

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Nice work. Discover a problem and fix it.

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Originally Posted by Gix11

Nice work. Discover a problem and fix it.

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Any idiot can get themselves into trouble it's the getting out
that makes the difference or so I keep telling myself, not being
silly enough to get into trouble in the first place might be smarter lol

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Originally Posted by ozzy1100

makes a big difference doesn't it ben, nice easy cheep solution you have there,
Si seems im not the only one lol

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Someone elses idea - haven't been welding enough lately for me to get off my arse and copy it!

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Originally Posted by GammaBoy

Someone elses idea - haven't been welding enough lately for me to get off my arse and copy it!

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Still a great idea, tho I give that one 10 minutes before
as I try to get my head under something I smash it of the top lol