Red Rider's Sand Machine Updated 07/23/14
I ment rotate the tire the direction it does not rotate like the way most stack them flat.
It sucks to get old
His name is Brent... Coworker and good personal friend.
He does all our shop's "one-off" lathe work... as in, where you get enough material to make one piece, so it has to be right the first time.
All I did was mill the hex head on one end so he got the majority of the coin and credit
I'll pass on your compliments, though.
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Using the latest in quantum red neck technology I’ve concluded that 11.875” fork centers and 2.5” of offset as at least one helpful member here is using will pretty much clear everything including rad guards. 2” might do it, but I’d likely need to loose the rad guards and reduce the turning radius as well as space the rad shrouds out a bit.
I’m about to do some serious reading on this subject, but given the cost of a set of custom triple clamps I think I’m better off going with the 2.5 offsets rather than find out I pulled a Maxwell Smart and “missed it by that much” later on.
Last edited by El Camexican; 08-26-2018 at 02:47 PM.
It sucks to get old
Your construction paper 2D modeling skills are phenomenal.
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Thanks to the moral support of a fellow member who we'll just call "Bob" I worked up the nerve to order the triple clamps from EMIG Racing. Gary knows the KTM clamps intimately, so all he needed was the distance between the fork tubes and the off-set in order to get started. I have a feeling they will be the focal point of the trike.
Powder coater came through today and I got busy on the swing-arm a few nights back. What I wasn't able to do was get the tires to seat on the rims. Will try again tomorrow with a bigger compressor.
Messing with the spacers it looks like I can get the overall width down to 48.5" if I want, or out to 51". What I can't do is use the super trick Tusk hubs I picked up unless I want to be about 53" wide, so I opted for a set of Vito's forged hubs which are the fugliest looking forgings I've ever seen. Spent about 30 minutes on each removing slag and tooling marks prior to blasting and painting. The look ok, but stockers are much cleaner.
What I wasn't able to do was get the tires to seat on the rims. Will try again tomorrow with a bigger compressor.
It sucks to get old
Nice work.
That axle makes your @$$ look fat.
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Red Rider's Sand Machine Updated 07/23/14
53: is wide. I thought 50" was wide in my toys. good progress so far.
Your welds make mine look like 3 year old built my swingarm. Nice job !
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