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| MadNick:
Afternoon, I wanted to lie in bed all day today but instead kicked myself up the backside and made the trek to my workshop, full of anticipation :) The reason for making the ball cutter was to put a radius on the top of a pair of custom handlebar clamps - I am building a hardtail chopper. I finalised a rough design for the clamps, found a couple of nice pieces of stainless around the right size and got stuck in. Having worked with stainless before and got quite rough results I had some trepidation but really neednt have worried (so far anyway). The raw material - I put the ball cutter into action and it cut a very clean radius on the top of clamp 1 - Sure there were a couple of rough bits but some fine wet and dry and then autosol and wire wool cleaned things right up - will still need polishing properly though. I then spun clamp 1 round in the chuck, piloted a hole for the retaining stud (which bolts up to the top handlebar yoke) and turned down a slight shoulder so it seats slightly above the yoke (no more pictures at this stages as my batteries went). Anyway, I hope to get some more work done on this possibly for next week or maybe at the weekend. Will keep you posted. Nick |
| sparky961:
How big is that chunk of metal? How long did it take to put the radius on the one end? -Sparky |
| MadNick:
Sparky, Its about an inch and a half in diameter and it took about 10 minutes to cut the radius. Nick |
| DaveH:
Nick, Good start, nicely done :thumbup: :clap: What is the raw material? :beer: DaveH |
| Brass_Machine:
Nicely done Nick. I am a bit of a bike guy... a little more about the hardtail? Eric |
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