Arts and crafts class today
Tud
rest of you can have whatever you want drink wise, my tab.
It was a lazy Sunday afternoon today, snow on the ground and waiting for
parts for the bike left me with little to do. So while the boy scribbled in
a colouring book I sat beside him and worked on a little arts and crafts
project of my own. I'm interested in replacing the battered old battery box
on the Triumph with something a little personal. I have to means of welding
or bending metal at the moment, but I have a box cutter, a ruler and a
marker, so I thought I'd start with a prototype of what I'd like to build.
I started out by jotting a few dimensions down, drawing the outline, and
then cutting out the cardboard in one piece:
http://mel.eastlink.ca/Box1.JPG
That was the most time consuming, once that was done it was just a matter of
folding Tab A onto Tab B, and so on to get the final result:
http://mel.eastlink.ca/Box2.JPG
http://mel.eastlink.ca/Box3.JPG
http://mel.eastlink.ca/Box4.JPG
I'll have to fine tune the measurements based on the thickness of the metal
and to have room for a layer of rubber inside to help hold the battery
snugly and reduce a little vibration, but other than that I believe I've
captured what I'm hoping to get out of a home built battery box.
My next challenge would be to find a place to mount this, the old battery
box was bolted to a tiny piece of 1/4" metal, but I'm thinking a much bigger
plate is in order. I figure I can use it to mount the battery box to as
well as some miscellaneous electrical components. In the first picture you
can see where I'm having a plate welded to, in the second picture (yes, it's
cardboard from a cat litter box) you can see the tiny little mount that was
used before. The battery would shake like crazy when it was mounted to that
plate.
http://mel.eastlink.ca/Plate1.JPG
http://mel.eastlink.ca/Plate2.JPG
That's it for now, by next weekend I should have my engine covers back from
the powder coater and the new stainless steel allen head bolts for them, so
there'll be some more pics of the engine coming.
Oh, and Les, if you read this, no, I didn't have the tabs bent over.
Time for another round.
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Tud
SENS BS#111 LFS#32 FLF MISFIT
'70 Triumph T120R Chopper
A couple rebuild pics: http://mel.eastlink.ca/html/piston.html
MINeSWEEP: http://mel.eastlink.ca/html/nova_scotia.html
Les
"Tud" <tud...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm feeling a little parched, so I think a nice cold beer is in order.
The
> rest of you can have whatever you want drink wise, my tab.
Thanks for the Pepsi.
<snip>
> Oh, and Les, if you read this, no, I didn't have the tabs bent over.
Glad you checked. You might have been able to ride for several months with
no problems, or it could have came loose right away. Seems like it was close
to a year before mine came loose. It sure makes a hell of a noise, with the
clutch hitting the primary cover.
Les
JMark
>
> I'm feeling a little parched, so I think a nice cold beer is in order. The
> rest of you can have whatever you want drink wise, my tab.
>
> It was a lazy Sunday afternoon today, snow on the ground and waiting for
> parts for the bike left me with little to do. So while the boy scribbled in
> a colouring book I sat beside him and worked on a little arts and crafts
> project of my own. I'm interested in replacing the battered old battery box
> on the Triumph with something a little personal. I have to means of welding
> or bending metal at the moment, but I have a box cutter, a ruler and a
> marker, so I thought I'd start with a prototype of what I'd like to build.
<S>
> My next challenge would be to find a place to mount this, the old battery
> box was bolted to a tiny piece of 1/4" metal, but I'm thinking a much bigger
> plate is in order.
<S>
> That's it for now, by next weekend I should have my engine covers back from
> the powder coater and the new stainless steel allen head bolts for them, so
> there'll be some more pics of the engine coming.
> Time for another round.
Slow down on those rounds man. Very creative battery box idea and I
liked the pussy shot on the new mounting plate.
Hope the snow clears soon and your bolts arrive as scheduled. Any news
on the cylinder?
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JMark
LFS#4-SENSbud-BS#83-FVDE#1
R11R
Tailgunner
Tud wrote:
I think you too should have your own TV shown on the Discovery Channel.
Certainly more interesting than Orange County Choppers. Then again, I wouldn't
get to cringe everytime Dad and Jr go at it if you were on TV.
I made a bracket recently out of cardboard, took it down to our shop and asked
them to make it for the usual Guinness 4-pack. Well, they laughed at me and told
me to measure all the pertinent dimensions, write them down and somebody would
enter it into AutoCad. Once in AutoCad it took the Omax minutes to cut out what
I wanted. That one cost me 2 4-packs.
I am know learning Autocad. Not because I'm cheap, but so I can hand them disks
and get parts back the next day. I'll still buy Guinness for 'em.
Tud, you get my email about the newbies?
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Tailgunner
'90 FLSTC "X-Girth"
'83 VF750s "Squidly Diddly"
"Nolo Silentium"
Tud
> Tud wrote:
> Hope the snow clears soon and your bolts arrive as scheduled. Any news
> on the cylinder?
No word on the cylinder, but I'm not expecting it for another couple weeks.
I sent the MO last week, which will take most of the week to down there,
then it'll take a couple weeks for the block to get here.
> --
>
> JMark
> LFS#4-SENSbud-BS#83-FVDE#1
> R11R
Tud
Can't say I've seen it. They'd have to supply me with real equipment so I
can fabricate actual parts, and not just cardboard cutouts. The show would
have to come with a warning about severe violence, having never used any of
that equipment, I'd probably be losing an average of one body part per
episode.
> I made a bracket recently out of cardboard, took it down to our shop and
asked
> them to make it for the usual Guinness 4-pack. Well, they laughed at me
and told
> me to measure all the pertinent dimensions, write them down and somebody
would
> enter it into AutoCad. Once in AutoCad it took the Omax minutes to cut out
what
> I wanted. That one cost me 2 4-packs.
>
> I am know learning Autocad. Not because I'm cheap, but so I can hand them
disks
> and get parts back the next day. I'll still buy Guinness for 'em.
I might have to try that here. I still don't really know any of the guys in
the shop, but they tend to be here on the weekends so I might have to drop
in. I highly doubt any of the guys down there are using autocad, it's
mostly heavy equipment repairs, but if I can get in and have access to a
metal brake then I might be able to fudge my way through an actual battery
box.
> Tud, you get my email about the newbies?
Nope, where'd you send it? tud...@hotmail.com is a valid address that I
check daily to make sure I don't get dropped from any of the penus enlarging
companies mailing lists.
> --
> Tailgunner
> '90 FLSTC "X-Girth"
> '83 VF750s "Squidly Diddly"
> "Nolo Silentium"
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Skiv
> I started out by jotting a few dimensions down, drawing the outline, and
> then cutting out the cardboard in one piece:
Very nice. I like it. It'll look cool. I've done so much proto work
with cardboard that sometimes I think there should be a way to just
plate it with stainless steel spray or something and use it like that.
Heh...memory is a bitch...I remember seein' a guy make a new seat pan
for a chopper by trimming it out of carboard first, then building it
up on both sides with fiberglass once he had the design he wanted. Cut
up an old camping mattress for the padding, covered it with leather
cut from a $10 pawnshop set of chaps, and he was in business.
Skiv :)=)} AH 41 BS 32 SENS IBA
'89 XLR/8 "Assignment"
Tud
> Tud wrote:
>
> > I started out by jotting a few dimensions down, drawing the outline, and
> > then cutting out the cardboard in one piece:
>
> Very nice. I like it. It'll look cool. I've done so much proto work
> with cardboard that sometimes I think there should be a way to just
> plate it with stainless steel spray or something and use it like that.
So having never made anything like this before, can you give me any
suggestion on what type/thickness of metal to use for the actual box? I'll
likely be powder coating it when it's done if that makes a difference. I
figure a couple sheets of 2'x2' sheet metal should do, the 2nd is for when I
screw the first one up, but other than that I have no idea what to ask for.
> Heh...memory is a bitch...I remember seein' a guy make a new seat pan
> for a chopper by trimming it out of carboard first, then building it
> up on both sides with fiberglass once he had the design he wanted. Cut
> up an old camping mattress for the padding, covered it with leather
> cut from a $10 pawnshop set of chaps, and he was in business.
There was a guy in the last Horse mag, I think it was the last issue, that
said he used the same method to get the seat pan made, but I believe he had
it proffessionally padded. I'd like to try that some time, but with a hard
tail frame I think I'll stick with my sprung seat. <g>
> Skiv :)=)} AH 41 BS 32 SENS IBA
> '89 XLR/8 "Assignment"
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