New yokes

[boxtriker]

New yokes
been doing a wee bit of work to the harley a nice set of wide yokes sorry i did not take more pic's hear's some facing work and a shot of them on the bike i also made headlight mount and brake caliper mounting plates on the front then gave it a blast over with a can of mat black paint. i have to make a billet alloy indicator mounting bar for the front in the week will take pic's as i make that on the lathe an mill

[Darren]

Very nicely done, not too fancy, nice simple lines.
I like them 

[shoey51]

looks good 

[sbwhart]

Good bit of machining,

That cube looks a use full bit of kit for mounting work on,

Look forward to next posting.

Cheers

Stew

[boxtriker]

Thanks not the most complicated set i've made but one hell of a lot of swarf
this is a complicated set on me trike

[Bernd]

Looking good. That trike looks nice.

Interesting use of a tapered bearing in the first pic. 

Bernd

[Brass_Machine]

Pretty cool. So, you manually machined your triple tree? Nice. 

I didn't realize your trike front end was a double fork setup. 

Eric

[DeereGuy]

Ditto what everyone else has already said. I do have one question though.  In your first pic with the set up what is the tool you have in your mill?  I have been trying to figure it out.

[boxtriker]

thanks chap's but i stand humbled in front of what some of you can do i just stab away till i get it right and probably go about it the rong way some times but get there in the end. the tool in the mill is a boring head come fly cutter and a real handy bit of kit i got it off ebay a little time back for about 28 pound

[Brass_Machine]

Just out of curiosity... when you plan your triples, how do you calculate the clamp diameter? Say off hand you are using 35mm forks. When the triple clamp is tightened up, what is the diameter of the hole for the forks? 35mm, 34mm??

Eric

[boxtriker]

If say the fork size is 39mm then the final bore with the mill would be that size then a quick pass in and out with fine sanding flap or rub round with 600 wet & dry to finish it off to get a slide in fit

[boxtriker]

So as i said hears a little bit of work i did on a mounting bar for the front indicators. will finish them next week with a trip over the polisher from hell my three horse power rip your arm's off will kill you if a grinding stone brakes up thing. so what do you lot think of my cheapey DRO set up dont all laff  it works and i have a set up on the lathe as well. and yes i no the vice is crap i hardly ever use one working off the table with clamps most of the time. but the two taped holes had to go in at 20 degrees off 90 from the bed so it was up for the job. please feel free to take the piss about the way i went about the job.



one bit of 1" HE 30 alloy bar
drill 4/ 8.2mm holes right through
drill 2/ 5mm 20mm deep holes and tap for m6 bolt
mill a flat to one side 125mm long and 5mm deep
mill two flats for two 8mm nut's an washers to sit flat

[Darren]

I'm very disappointed with you now, 

Couldn't find anything to laugh about, looks good to me, works dunit 

Nice work there as always......

[sbwhart]

That looks a nice piece of work 

Thanks for showing.

Stew