I've been working on the upper fairing bracket. It's all started as straight strips of sheet metal, and I've been working them into *very* 3D shapes, starting with the bending brake, then using the shrinker & stretcher to curve them to meet their destinations.
It was going great until I got the bike off the work stand and the lower right corner of the fairing interferes with the radiator cap by 1/4"!!
If it was easy, everyone would do it.
The top of the luggage rack, including the strap/bungee mount point.
This is for the "safety strap" that loops around the saddlebag handle in case any of the mounts get loose.
Not my finest welding, though. I'm thinking about grinding them off and trying again.
Can you tell I like dimple dies? 👍
These are the knobs from 2 posts ago, and are what hold the luggage onto the frame from 1 post ago.
I made them very thin so they wouldn't take up a bunch of volume inside the luggage.
The back side of the luggage mounts.
The lowest one is stationary, the two top ones rotate when loosened, for removal -- if you rotate the top tabs 180°, the saddlebag comes off.
It's hard to get a good photo of this. It's a weld seam on the top cap of a hand rail. The project is wildly late, so I figure I should at least deliver a perfectly welded, perfectly metal-finished product. You can't feel where the weld is, and that was the goal.
Luggage tie down points for my GSXR-GT project. I machined the dies to stamp 1/8" wire into this shape. The long horizontal legs will be trimmed. This shape allows the use of both a bungee net hook and web strap.
I'm planning on refinishing our dining room table that I made 25 years ago.
I don't want to disassemble it and drag the massive top outdoors, so I need to manage the dust during sanding.
I looked, but didn't find an STL for a dust collection adaptor for my RIDGID R2601 random orbit sander. So, I modeled one and printed it on my Prusa Mini+ in ABS-GF.
It fits great, the twist lock works as it should, and will work great!
Given a spare hour on a rainy holiday, I made some smart looking stainless steel bar end weights. After the lathe work was complete, I gave them a nice low sheen on the scotch bright wheel. As one does. It is a tidy finishing touch without adding a lot of width.
I spent 2 hours re-making a lost $8 part instead of trying harder to find it or ordering a factory replacement. As one does when one has a lathe at one’s disposal. #stainless #singlepointthreading
My athletic club needed a new plaque to celebrate the people in the club who have succeeded in swimming the English Channel. There is a second one for the Catalina Channel. Walnut, finished in Osmo hard wax oil.
