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Project started
December 2020,
See the CAD version here
.Now I have spoken about my obsession with gaps before, I
really hate it when the oiltank does not follow the frame exactly,
both seen from the side and from the top. So I made a little
tool to scrape the oiltank parts while following the curve of
the frame. |
The bearings are old needle bearings from shovelhead camshafts,
the scratching pen is just a standard one with hardened tip
and it is now spring loaded. In this epidode I use it to scrape
the top and bottom of the oiltank, later I will also use it
to do the side.
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The fun part about making tools like this is that they can
be cobbled together from stuff I had lying around, nothing needed
to be bought. The scratch pen can be mounted in different positions,
pointing up or down, and the spring pressure can be varied.
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after trimming the top and bottom of the oiltank, I made
all the bits for the battery overflow hose. It would have been
simpler to make the whole battery compartment a bit wider, but
where is the fun in that? |
To get the sheetmetal in the right shape I just welded a
bit of round bar 17 to a piece of angle iron, with a gap between
them, which makes a perfect little bending tool. I am going
to let Aad do the welding this afternoon, as I still don't trust
my own welding enough for parts that need to be leakproof, haha.
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