Ha everybody seems to be makin good progress today with the stuff there building. It just so happens I did too. Except My build has absolutely nothing to do with anything yankee toys related. Ha!
But I still thought some of you might get a kick outa what I made. So im unloading it on all of you.
Its a bicycle chopper. Hypoid let me learn to TIG on his machine and he was like hey come ride with me and my chopper buddies, so I said sure but that means I get to use the hell outa your welder!!! He was like uhhhhh and I was like Too Late!
The frame is composed of parts from 4 different bike frames. The blue section in front is some random jap girl frame. The upper rear triangle is a setion of frame tubing milled and welded together and a section of a mountain bike lower triangle. The lower rear triangle is a section of an upper rear triangle from yet another mountain bike.
The bottom bracket (crank case) was removed from the jap bike and another bottom bracket was welded to a section of yet another mountain bike frame to locate it about 5 inches to the rear of where it usually should sit.
The front forks were at one point a bmx fork assembly. I cut them inserted a sleeve and roset welded it to the stem side of the bmx forks. Then I took two four foot tubes of 4130 and welded them in.
To make the lower forward angle in the forks I first cut sleeves at about 17 degrees and fliped them around on eachother to get a 34 degree bend. I then did the same thing with the outer fork tubes. I crammed in the inserts and rosette welded them in place and sleeved the outer tubes over them and welded everything to everything.
To make the dropouts i took two pieces of solid round stock that fit inside the fork tubes and threw them on the milling machine and milled a 1/4 inch slot through the middle of them. Then I took two pieces of 1/4 sheet metal and made a slot on one side for the axle and milled out a large rectangle area in the back large enough to fit around the outer fork tubes. This all fit together like a really nice puzzle and by word of others was super overkill and ridiculously complicated. (but it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside)
The photos don't do it justice. when you ride the thing the way it is with the seat stuck in its way too low position your head is somewhere around 6 1/2 feet in the air. Theirs still a little bit to do to it to strengthen it up so I can go crash it but its rideable at this point.
A big thanks to Jackie not only did he let me use his shop and all his really nice machines but he got me tons of free parts and lent me others to get this thing together. Ill have to reward him by smashing this bike into some immovable object at fairly high speed in his presence.
But I still thought some of you might get a kick outa what I made. So im unloading it on all of you.
Its a bicycle chopper. Hypoid let me learn to TIG on his machine and he was like hey come ride with me and my chopper buddies, so I said sure but that means I get to use the hell outa your welder!!! He was like uhhhhh and I was like Too Late!
The frame is composed of parts from 4 different bike frames. The blue section in front is some random jap girl frame. The upper rear triangle is a setion of frame tubing milled and welded together and a section of a mountain bike lower triangle. The lower rear triangle is a section of an upper rear triangle from yet another mountain bike.
The bottom bracket (crank case) was removed from the jap bike and another bottom bracket was welded to a section of yet another mountain bike frame to locate it about 5 inches to the rear of where it usually should sit.
The front forks were at one point a bmx fork assembly. I cut them inserted a sleeve and roset welded it to the stem side of the bmx forks. Then I took two four foot tubes of 4130 and welded them in.
To make the lower forward angle in the forks I first cut sleeves at about 17 degrees and fliped them around on eachother to get a 34 degree bend. I then did the same thing with the outer fork tubes. I crammed in the inserts and rosette welded them in place and sleeved the outer tubes over them and welded everything to everything.
To make the dropouts i took two pieces of solid round stock that fit inside the fork tubes and threw them on the milling machine and milled a 1/4 inch slot through the middle of them. Then I took two pieces of 1/4 sheet metal and made a slot on one side for the axle and milled out a large rectangle area in the back large enough to fit around the outer fork tubes. This all fit together like a really nice puzzle and by word of others was super overkill and ridiculously complicated. (but it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside)
The photos don't do it justice. when you ride the thing the way it is with the seat stuck in its way too low position your head is somewhere around 6 1/2 feet in the air. Theirs still a little bit to do to it to strengthen it up so I can go crash it but its rideable at this point.
A big thanks to Jackie not only did he let me use his shop and all his really nice machines but he got me tons of free parts and lent me others to get this thing together. Ill have to reward him by smashing this bike into some immovable object at fairly high speed in his presence.
