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mikestrikes Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 236 Decatur, AL Gender:	Front End Surgery 07/13/09 at 18:33:45 Top clamp on the operating table... Whats left of it... And milled off the flange on the caps...
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mikestrikes Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 236 Decatur, AL Gender:	Re: Front End Surgery Reply #1 - 07/15/09 at 18:17:03 Guess you were wonder'n what the heck am I doing ? I got a 2nd lower clamp and put the bushing in it and made a new top clamp, that with the way it sits higher and with the lips milled off I can lower the front to my like'n. Looks better also. Now you are wondering what am I going to do about handle bars right. Thats later..
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 29686 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Front End Surgery Reply #2 - 07/15/09 at 18:49:03 Woof!.... You don't mess around!.... Can't wait to see what's next!...
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Educatedredneck Senior Member Alliance Member Offline Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. Posts: 458 Hampstead, Maryland Gender:	Re: Front End Surgery Reply #3 - 07/15/09 at 23:18:02 Mike -- You "DA MAN" -- Nice work there, keep us posted.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Front End Surgery Reply #4 - 07/16/09 at 01:55:09 Well, Aint that a hekkuvan Idea~! Good looking stuff you got goin on there.
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10875 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Front End Surgery Reply #5 - 07/16/09 at 04:13:44 good stuff ... keep it coming !
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LostArtist Ex Member	Re: Front End Surgery Reply #6 - 07/16/09 at 10:28:29 I love the color of your new front end, I'd like to do something like that with mine after I pay it off, but I'd like a more brass/gold look, how did you do that? was it expensive?
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Re: Front End Surgery
Reply #7 - 07/16/09 at 10:43:27

LostArtist wrote on 07/16/09 at 10:28:29:

I love the color of your new front end, I'd like to do something like that with mine after I pay it off, but I'd like a more brass/gold look, how did you do that? was it expensive?

That's just the indoor lighting affecting the photo.

And who the heck has a milling machine in their basement?

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mikestrikes Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 236 Decatur, AL Gender:	Re: Front End Surgery Reply #8 - 07/16/09 at 11:35:02 I dont have a basement, a shop in my back yard yes.. And yeah its the funky lighting in that room, my wife has this funky colored carpet a cat stuff all over the place,,,, I only come in here for the computer...
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AngloSaxon Full Member Offline I'd rather have one big one than four small ones. Posts: 141 Framingham MA Gender:	Re: Front End Surgery Reply #9 - 07/16/09 at 11:58:34 Don't mind me. I'm just jealous cos I don't have a milling machine..lol
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LostArtist Ex Member	Re: Front End Surgery Reply #10 - 07/16/09 at 12:12:59 yeah I kinda thought so, anyone know how to colorize metal or if that's possible, like without spray paint
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AngloSaxon Full Member Offline I'd rather have one big one than four small ones. Posts: 141 Framingham MA Gender:	Re: Front End Surgery Reply #11 - 07/16/09 at 12:19:21 LostArtist wrote on 07/16/09 at 12:12:59: yeah I kinda thought so, anyone know how to colorize metal or if that's possible, like without spray paint Just google anodizing or metal plating.
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AngloSaxon Full Member Offline I'd rather have one big one than four small ones. Posts: 141 Framingham MA Gender:	Re: Front End Surgery Reply #12 - 07/16/09 at 12:24:47 Hey Mike, the light bulb just went on in my head, I now see what you're doing.....radical man!
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Re: Front End Surgery
Reply #13 - 07/16/09 at 12:52:07

I am making a custom raked triple set ... or I am getting a machinist to make em ... and the top triple and bottom triples are different in the construction cos they take different directional loads.
I dunno much more ... but this looks good, hopefully it will be strong enough ... yea I know the front part of the lower triple is 1.5 inch and the back part is solid as opposed to 1 inch all the way across and all hollow ...
BTW you could have just used plain aluminum, 1.25 OD round 1 inch length, drilled 7/8th and used it instead of milling off the top triple. Oh you have to do a small releif for the threads to sit on the under side ... but its efinetly easier than starting off with the top triple.
Looks cool though ...
Put a set of 1/2 inch holes 3.5 inches apart and run harley risers ... I did that on mine.
Cool.
Srinath.

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mikestrikes

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Re: Front End Surgery
Reply #14 - 07/16/09 at 13:13:14

srinath wrote on 07/16/09 at 12:52:07:

Put a set of 1/2 inch holes 3.5 inches apart and run harley risers ... I did that on mine.
Cool.
Srinath.

Nope. I'm going to take a solid chunk of 4x3x2 block of alum and drill a 1" hole longways in it, cut it in half and drill/tap 4 holes above and 4 holes below to make a one piece bar clamp... then make a set of Z bars.

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