Thrown together to ride til winter

porchev914 wrote: That tail is 73-75 for sure. I'm not certain about the 76 tail....maybe, maybe not....someone else would know better. Plastic welding isn't all that difficult. Its basically a soldering gun and you melt the plastic pieces together, use a little ABS filler rod and it'll feel like TIG welding

cool think i might play around with it a little got enough old parts to practice on appreciate the help

I'm throwing chips Ram and yours is first! I'll post more pics tomorrow when I get it off.



Les

Les if I were a woman I would cry LOL after the week I have had I am not sure anything could have made me feel any better. Talk about timing :woohoo: :woohoo:

I am soo stoked as of this moment my spray chrome business can wait til I get the front end done LMAO
Thanks man keep the photos coming :woohoo:

porchev914 wrote: That tail is 73-75 for sure. I'm not certain about the 76 tail....maybe, maybe not....someone else would know better. Plastic welding isn't all that difficult. Its basically a soldering gun and you melt the plastic pieces together, use a little ABS filler rod and it'll feel like TIG welding

76 tailpiece is flat above the light like the 77-80

I used rivet nuts to hold my light bracket on.

Here's a couple more pics! Test parts to get glitches out of program but you get the picture.
Top view of the lower tree


Bottom view of the lower tree






Les

anyone have a napkin I've already used my socks! WOW how cool is that? Better than sex? Maybe!! ok it is! but thats because you dont get something this cool everyday!!

beautiful! Officially remotivated!! finishing my tail light setup today if i can find some ABS rods locally 2 hour round trip if not.

All I can say is WOW! I'm a little jealous.

top freakin notch work les :evil: !

what legs do those fit?

if you have some plastic that is the same (a broken part )you could cut some strips off of it and use it to weld with.

leon

531blackbanshee wrote: top freakin notch work les :evil: !

what legs do those fit?

if you have some plastic that is the same (a broken part )you could cut some strips off of it and use it to weld with.

leon

I havent looked at them in a while but they are for zx7 legs 97 or 99 dont remember

thanks I got all excited about my bike after seeing Les's work then had family issues. Teenagers!!!
just when you think they deserve a little reponsibility they prove you wrong! but any way didnt get any time to try the abs welding hope to do that tonight

Thanks Leon, These are for ZX forks, so far all the ZX forks assemblys seem to have the same spacing and offset, just different fork diameters so all I have to do is change that diameter and should be able to make them pretty cost effective. Right now I'm doing 4 sets out of bar stock but I've got a shop pricing them roughed out on a waterjet, that will cut off a ton of time on the CNC and with plate being cheaper I may be into the roughed out version for pretty close money as bar stock is costing so it may get real affordable for a set. I still need to look into the GSXR forks for spacing and offsets. I know there seems to be some people using them. Having that CNC up and going opened up a whole new window.

Les

nice les

keep me in the loop,i have a 05/06 gsxr 1000 front end if you need me to send you the triples to measure or anything.

i know that you are right about the cnc opening up new opportunities.

i would like to have one with a small work envelope for little one off stuff.if i could make it pay for itself then maybe i could get a bigger one :whistle: .

keep us posted,

leon

p.s. sorry for the thread jack aaron :silly: .