This whole project has totally beaten the shit outta me and it's been a real struggle and i haven't even done much yet. Long story short, I worked my ass off a couple years back and bought this clapped out 2000 1200s sporty from a guy that works at the local dealership. It had a terrible rattle can paint job and some fucked up parts I didn't really care for. I sold the mag's, the forks(ups totally fucked me on that and I basically have them away) the bars, tank, and a bunch of other small stuff. I was in welding school at the time and wanted to throw a Haifley tail on it. So I bought one and then thought that I could do better and wanted to have a reason to push myself farther as a fabricator. So in school I built this frame jig that was honestly a little shakey, and that I had to sneak into lab when the head of the department wasn't there. I'd set up my laser shit in a booth and drag my heavy ass jig into there too. Seriously, that shit was fucking heavy as shit. I built like 75 percent of a frame and then I kinda hated it and its still chilling in my backyard and I throw it around when I'm pissed.
I ended up taking a break on all that, and worked serious overtime for a company that ended up going out of business and I got fucked on alot of money, which was really my fault for Rollin the dice on that, but it was a gnarly experience and I'm kinda glad I did it. Again, that's a long story, and I was planning on spending a nice chunk of that on my sporty I was gearing up to get back into. Ended up scoring a large I beam and jig materials outta that place which ive got set up right now.
So now I've spent the last six months going from odd job to odd job and have spent the last couple months making decent money and pulling in major overtime at the place I'm currently at and taking a machining class. Since December I've been drawing up plans and buying parts, and bending tubes and building fixtures.
All in all I've totally destroyed about five sticks of 1" dom tubing, and alot of other materials and have ended up with two attempts at building the lower frame rails. First attempt was spot on and all the bends were perfect, but the frame looked a little hunched and short. I moved things around a cunt hair and stretched the frame just a tad and revised my prints. I make full scale prints that I draw on paper form the local print shop(very cheap) and go off that.
I did that and copied the prints. Couple times over, fixing little things, and built another set of rails. They came out great, but recently I found out that my prints get slightly distorted Everytime I copy them, so I ended up throwing those away too.
I also built some fixtures for pressing tubing for clearance, and one blew apart and the other caused the tubing to bend up.
I ended up taking a break on all that, and worked serious overtime for a company that ended up going out of business and I got fucked on alot of money, which was really my fault for Rollin the dice on that, but it was a gnarly experience and I'm kinda glad I did it. Again, that's a long story, and I was planning on spending a nice chunk of that on my sporty I was gearing up to get back into. Ended up scoring a large I beam and jig materials outta that place which ive got set up right now.
So now I've spent the last six months going from odd job to odd job and have spent the last couple months making decent money and pulling in major overtime at the place I'm currently at and taking a machining class. Since December I've been drawing up plans and buying parts, and bending tubes and building fixtures.
All in all I've totally destroyed about five sticks of 1" dom tubing, and alot of other materials and have ended up with two attempts at building the lower frame rails. First attempt was spot on and all the bends were perfect, but the frame looked a little hunched and short. I moved things around a cunt hair and stretched the frame just a tad and revised my prints. I make full scale prints that I draw on paper form the local print shop(very cheap) and go off that.
I did that and copied the prints. Couple times over, fixing little things, and built another set of rails. They came out great, but recently I found out that my prints get slightly distorted Everytime I copy them, so I ended up throwing those away too.
I also built some fixtures for pressing tubing for clearance, and one blew apart and the other caused the tubing to bend up.
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