ZX7R billet brake hanger...

As promised here's a pic of a billet aluminum brake hanger I've been
machining all week for Marv's ZX7R replacing the stock purple hanger...
http://www.fox302.com/userdata/netters2/files/ShopPics/ZX7RRearBrakeHanger.JPG


The shiny hanger on the left weights 7oz where the purple one on the right
weights 11oz... that's a weight savings of 4oz...

I'm happy and Marv is happy because now his rear brake hanger matches the
front Ohlins brake hangers...

You'll see it all in an up coming issue of Cycle World for they are in the
process of shooting pics...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
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Sweeet...

one day when I'm rich we'll talk about some ideers I
gots. Pure stupidity...none of that impure reeky stuff.
--

Nefarious Necroloigist 42nd Degree
Some people ride, some just like to show off their butt
jewelry once in a while.
Dum vivimus, vivamus
<3 )3~~ <3 )3~~

 

Thanks Keith... why wait??? the door of the Busy Little Shop is always
open... we'll talk about them ducks!!! like how Texans talk about ducks...

m r ducks...
m r not ducks...
s a r c m wangs...
L B m r ducks...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
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Nice Larry... What do you use for machining? Manual rotary table and a
bridgeport? Or do you have a CNC?

 

Thanks Steve... Oh no... I dream about owning a CNC... I employ a Taiwan
copy of a 9 x 12 Bridgeport and a manual rotary table... it's all done by
hand and eye coordination... ruffed out by band saw and finished up with a
belt sander...
I'm not a trained machinist... it's all trial and error and hit and miss...
I just love working with metal...


Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
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That hanger is some excellent craftsmanship for a manual process IMHO. I
don't think I have the patience, or the eyes for that type of work any
longer. I'm spoiled by CNCs & Cad/Cam So ya get an "adda boy" from a
"real" machinist. Although, I rarely run machines any longer, I just draw
real pretty 3D pictures these days, and mainly just cut carbon/graphite
for the EDM sinker.

One of these days I'll post some pics of the cabon fibre molds I'm making,
and the billet breather system I've made for my Buell.

Yeah, ya love it till ya *GOTTA* do it on a daily basis

 

<snip>

That hogged out area looks GOOD. Nice work. What happened when you
were thinning the bit at the lower right?

Al Moore
DoD 734

 

Thanks Al the Pal... ah you noticed a caricature mark... one of the little
things that lets you know it that a human guided the machined and not a
robot...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
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..... uh-oh !!!

 

I create solid models of cored turbine nozzles on PRO/E. The casting
vendor uses ceramic cores and the nozzle itself is made out of Inco718
or HastX or some other exotic alloy. Then we EDM cooling holes in it.
Our housings are milled on giant multi-axis machines where just the
tool rack alone is 6' high and 10' long and the machine sits in a
custom concrete pit foundation. It's a kick wandering through the shop
watching chips spewing and thinking about the parts I _could_ make.

It's my job, but it's really like playing a computer game all day. i
get to model complex geometry on the tube, then go see the real parts
made in the shop. _My_ handiwork, OTOH, is relegated to hacksaws,
hammers, and hand drills. Nice work, Larry.

Turby the Turbosurfer

 

Way cool turby...
I use VX (www.vx.com), and Delcam PowerShape/PowerMill. I design/machine
assemble plastic, and die cast injection molds. Do you also use Pro/Man?

My brother works in one of the largest mold builders in North America.
They've got a butt load of those huge 5 axis machines. I just walk thru
there, thinking of the things I could make

 

No, but the guys in the shop do. Things are so different now from the
old days. The drawing is just a legal definition document that follows
more than precedes the manufacturing of the part now. For example, I
send the solid model of a nozzle to our casting vendor and he starts
making his mold from that before the drawing is ever started. For
milled parts, the manufacturing engineer takes my model and uses
Pro/Man to program his machines. Concurrent engineering has made the
whole design/manufacturing/production cycle so much faster and more
efficient it's ridiculous.

I'm blown away by injection molding. The parts I design are complex
enough, but the molds are a quantum level more so.

Turby the Turbosurfer

 

_My_ handiwork, OTOH, is relegated to hacksaws,

Thanks Turby... and if I ever get down your way... how about a tour of the
milling machine shop???

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
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Done it myself, I have. I put myself through part of my BSc as a
machinist in a job shop.

Al Moore
DoD 734

 

...He is nothing short of amazing what he can do with his hand
mill.........He has

TODDY!!! yep we go back a long time... btw hows the Belt-0-Ceptor???

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
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