For you "machinist types"

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dirthead1 12/16/2009 9:40pm
12/16/2009 9:40pm
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Amazed by the things you guys can create out of a chunk of stainless, aluminum or steel, even if it is some of what you may...
Amazed by the things you guys can create out of a chunk of stainless, aluminum or steel, even if it is some of what you may refer to as the easy stuff. A fellow message boarder here offered up his skills to help me complete my Fox replica bike. Said he just liked the looks of some of the junk I work on and wanted to be a part of it. Pretty cool offer to say the least. In addition to these pieces for the Simons front end, he has now taken over the task of replicating Hutch's (Motonews) priceless Fox watercooled head for me after I got dropped on my head by a few other people. He machined out my Simon's triple clamps so the RM stem now fits properly, made the axle, threaded bushing,stem nut, brake stay arm, stay arm spacer , modded brake backing plate and recut the top of my air fork caps so they look new again. All for free. I did find out he was working on an RM project of his own so as a token of my appreciation I sent him a spare Simon's front end I had in storage and offered to paint his tank up in the team Fox colors when I do mine. This stuff does have a way of evening itself out which is pretty cool in itself. Enjoy the pics.




Have any pics? I would love to see them.
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fcr 12/16/2009 9:42pm
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dirthead1 wrote:
Boots, goggles, and Maxima 927 is all I need. Dude, the weed eater is a whole other story, you've never heard one whip at this pitch....
Sweet ..... .
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Sandberm 12/16/2009 9:56pm
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newmann wrote:
Amazed by the things you guys can create out of a chunk of stainless, aluminum or steel, even if it is some of what you may...
Amazed by the things you guys can create out of a chunk of stainless, aluminum or steel, even if it is some of what you may refer to as the easy stuff. A fellow message boarder here offered up his skills to help me complete my Fox replica bike. Said he just liked the looks of some of the junk I work on and wanted to be a part of it. Pretty cool offer to say the least. In addition to these pieces for the Simons front end, he has now taken over the task of replicating Hutch's (Motonews) priceless Fox watercooled head for me after I got dropped on my head by a few other people. He machined out my Simon's triple clamps so the RM stem now fits properly, made the axle, threaded bushing,stem nut, brake stay arm, stay arm spacer , modded brake backing plate and recut the top of my air fork caps so they look new again. All for free. I did find out he was working on an RM project of his own so as a token of my appreciation I sent him a spare Simon's front end I had in storage and offered to paint his tank up in the team Fox colors when I do mine. This stuff does have a way of evening itself out which is pretty cool in itself. Enjoy the pics.




Wow, thats time well spent and quite an accomplishment.

Being able to machine your own parts is pretty cool and a great skill to have. Id love to have a shop someday with a lathe, and horizonal and vertical mills.
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ehr400 12/17/2009 3:30am
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I did alot of machining in my younger days, mainly bridgeport, and ID/OD grinding and surface grinding. My main thing, and still is, is welding. I have my own TIG, MIG and Engine drive at home. I love doing percision TIG like I use to do for aerospace and medical type applications but about the only thing I get to weld now is heavy equipment. I agree, great machinist and bike enthusiest is a deadly combination.

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blankplate 12/17/2009 7:53am
12/17/2009 7:53am Edited Date/Time 4/17/2016 7:30pm
Keep those pics coming! Fellow machinist myself.....well it has been about ten years but I sure do miss it. Learned it from my dad (old school screw machines) and spent 5 years at Raytheon in Rapid Reaction building bombs & stuff. Good machining is like porn to me.

Nice job.
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YAKMX 12/17/2009 8:53am
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Yes, very nice handiwork. I to am a machinist.Making internals for huge 30,000hp turbo compressors.Specializing in taking an engineers drawing and hand carving exotic metals to make them look like the picture. Also good at making internal parts for motorcycles in my spare time. Like shift shafts for older Montessas and such. Glad to see some of us are really old school types here.CNC is cool ,but hand working metal is the best.
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FreshTopEnd 12/17/2009 10:19am
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Well, Joe, you prodded a lot of resources out of the woodwork with this thread!

I admire you guys that do this a lot. It's a skill and temperment I wish I had as much as any.
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newmann 12/17/2009 12:29pm
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Yeah, no shortage of "friends" anymore for our projects!
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newmann 12/17/2009 12:33pm
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YAKMX wrote:
Yes, very nice handiwork. I to am a machinist.Making internals for huge 30,000hp turbo compressors.Specializing in taking an engineers drawing and hand carving exotic metals to...
Yes, very nice handiwork. I to am a machinist.Making internals for huge 30,000hp turbo compressors.Specializing in taking an engineers drawing and hand carving exotic metals to make them look like the picture. Also good at making internal parts for motorcycles in my spare time. Like shift shafts for older Montessas and such. Glad to see some of us are really old school types here.CNC is cool ,but hand working metal is the best.
If you are into vintage tranny parts (now that sounds like a bizarre website), you really need to make shift forks and a better second and third gearset for the 73-74 CR250M Honda's. I guarantee you could sell plenty of those.
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bigmaico 12/17/2009 2:26pm
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dirthead1 wrote:
Boots, goggles, and Maxima 927 is all I need. Dude, the weed eater is a whole other story, you've never heard one whip at this pitch....
You forgot the left over C-12 & the custom expansion chamber...LOL
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alien 12/18/2009 7:30am
12/18/2009 7:30am
I'm happy to see all the intrest in machining trick parts. The true hand built works bikes of the 70's to mid 80's were real eye candy to a machinist.
In the vintage years a cheap conversaional CNC machine wasn't to be found in the back shop of every aftermarket product company so cool stuff like machined triple clamps, linkages and lever perches couldn't be bought. If you knew a machinist you could have it made but cost was always a problem and most machinist were grumpy and not into helping a kid with a dirt bike. That is what makes the water cooled moto x fox head Newmann is working on so rare. I bet no more than two were ever made.
If anyone is intrested in following the project from a block of metal to the finished product it is being documented with photos and Tydog will send them to Newmann if I can figure out how to get them out of my camera and into a format that can be emailed.

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