Let's see some home garage made fabrication!

[selectedgrub]

[ecmthis]

Made from an old gas bbq cart.

[WillSCB]

This is a barbecue grill made from the tank from a 1920's era hot water heater, a fireplace grate (the part you stack the wood onto in the fireplace) and some miscellaneous scrap metal.

[selectedgrub]

I like it.
Thanks for sharing.

[Guest]

I had my trouser leg do the rounds of the motor pulley the other day,...so decided to make a primary belt guard.
I started with some card and cut a rough shape out with basic measurements,...then refined it 2 or 3 times
until it was just right & I had a useable template...I measured 5 or 6 times before I started,...
a good firm in Cornwall by the name of ''LASER MASTER'' got sent the template and cut the blank out of 1/4'' aluminium plate.
it was spot on when I got it back a week later and for £14 ($18)
I made 3 pillars to mount it to, two at the front off of the alternator cover,
and one at the rear, off of one of the Transmission main shaft support bearing mount bolts.
first thing was to plot the 3 mount holes which I did by using a 1mm sheet of Perspex, I drilled the holes then transposed them onto the aluminium plate,.. spot on !!.
I then polished the plate to pretty much a mirror finish, covered in masking tapes and plotted out a pattern,
after 4 or 5 tries I got it just about right so centre punched it, then centre drilled, Drilled and chamfered for contrast ,...
I think it came out well and it fitted in one, didn't have a decent camera with me when I fitted it but ya get the idea ..

[Hoghead]

^^^^Is nice, we like!

[selectedgrub]

Battery tray

[Luky]

Made my own offset 5 degree trees out of scrap at work.

Very creative! Wish we could se the whole bike.

[Luky]

Way too brittle for foot pegs..... I'd have a re-think if I were you.

I agree! And the sharp corners are never good.

[Luky]

Or it'd tear your leg off. I've heard of hit-men inserting files into roofs of mouths to conceal the entrance wound, they'll fuck you up.

The guy I took my mc test with doesn't ride any more. I ran into him on a jobsite digging ditches with a limp. I asked him why, his calf was ripped off the bone by the stock foot peg (sport bike, the dipshit wore shorts) and they thought they'd have to amputate.
I've also bent my stock highway footpegs adjusting myself, there's a lot of leverage in forwards.

When I see a rider wearing shorts I can just visualize the knee hitting the pavement. Horrible.

[Luky]

Its only when hardened and not tempered that (high carbon) steel is brittle. The heat from welding alone should temper it enough to remove brittleness, but if he's halfway smart he annealed it, if only to make welding easier. If the metal is annealed, its nearly as soft and flexible as any other steel. That's critical to how they MAKE files - they use a chisel to "carve" the teeth in the annealed metal, then harden it.

Accidental bending seems possible, as it would be for any other chunk of 1/4" thick bar stock. Hardening and tempering to spring-hardness could help there. Or he could just avoid putting his full weight on the tips of them.

OR... He could just take them off and throw them in the garbage where they belong.

[drivermark]

Built a set of springer forks for my softail

[Hoghead]

Nice work.
Some prototype risers.
https://selectedgrub.blogspot.com/20...og-post_3.html

Clean!

[BlackDog]

Made a 50 cal shifter peg. used a threaded rod with JB Weld and used a 1/2" copper rod that I threaded and sanded into a bullet.

[BlackDog]

Made 1-1/2" tank lift with 3/8" aluminum plate, Removed oil lines and made brass lines, made a bracket from 3/8" plate and turned my A/C vertical.