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| pepethefat:
Love those chips...although they don't look like chips I make. Possibly a function of knowing what you're doing and a bigger mill. What alloy/steel are you using for most of your bits that you're making? I'm just getting going, myself, so I'm looking to learn a bit from this thread. I will be making my own penny sometime soon...but for the time being I'm on the basics. What thread did you settle on for the front spokes? feedback on your photos...very nice...and most have either a ruler or some other object of known size which allows us to get an idea of dimensions...which will be handy in the future. thanks, and carry on! |
| Powder Keg:
I'm working on my Penny still:o) These are the rear fork ends. I made some filing buttons and bolted them to the end. I then used my bench grinder and ground the corners off leaving them a little proud. Then using a couple files I removed metal flush to the buttons. I think they turned out pretty good:o) I hit them with a wire wheel on my bench grinder to even o8ut the surface finish a bit. ~Wes~ |
| DaveH:
Turned out nice Wes :thumbup: :clap: :beer: DaveH |
| Powder Keg:
I got home from work today and there was a envelope from "Jolly old England" waiting for me. It came by Royal air mail. "Must be important" I says to myself:o) It was a little heavy, so I was thinking, it must be expensive also? There was a great picture waiting inside :clap: And a note from Ralph\o/ This picture has me thinking that I made something wrong? The seat is mounted different on this fine example. No worries though. It's probably a different brand of seat. My spring isn't nearly that wide as the one in the picture. I'll check into it though. Maybe they stripped the bike down for a race? The brakes are gone also :med: Thank you very much Ralph! This means a lot to me:o) ~Wes~ |
| Brass_Machine:
Very cool Ralph, very cool! Eric |
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