Love following your build!
You'll have to tie that bike down so it doesn't float away when parked.
You'll have to tie that bike down so it doesn't float away when parked.
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Winter project: upgrading time! (R6 forks and more...)
Bjorn
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Very nice! Do you realize how bad you make some of us others look ?
And you may already have thought about it, but a small drain hole in the battery box may be a good idea.
Mini speed hole you mean
Bjorn
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Made a bunch of small stuff. Didn't take a lot of pictures. Here is a battery holder, man I can get really lost in the details. Now I know why my projects take so long to finish....
After making many parts on the CNC I realized they need to be protected against corrosion. Most of the aluminium alloys dont really need corrosion protection in normal conditions. However most my parts are made from scraps of 7075 and 2024. Both really strong and easy to machine, but terrible resistance against corrosion. So I gathered most of my parts and together with a Co-worker we had everything anodized.
These alloys are not very easy to anodize but the company assured us they could do it, minor color differences were to be expected but that was fine.
After a few weeks we got our parts back.... the black was done fine but the other color we requested was light grey....
they came back this blueish... really disappointed. With the parts in the boxes I hoped the color would be dark enough to go unnoticed on the bike. Judge for yourself:
Now looking for another company to have them anodize it black, seems to be the easiest color to do...
After making many parts on the CNC I realized they need to be protected against corrosion. Most of the aluminium alloys dont really need corrosion protection in normal conditions. However most my parts are made from scraps of 7075 and 2024. Both really strong and easy to machine, but terrible resistance against corrosion. So I gathered most of my parts and together with a Co-worker we had everything anodized.
These alloys are not very easy to anodize but the company assured us they could do it, minor color differences were to be expected but that was fine.
After a few weeks we got our parts back.... the black was done fine but the other color we requested was light grey....
they came back this blueish... really disappointed. With the parts in the boxes I hoped the color would be dark enough to go unnoticed on the bike. Judge for yourself:
Now looking for another company to have them anodize it black, seems to be the easiest color to do...
Bjorn
XS650 Addict
It just gives me that AliExpress/Alibaba special creeps
Yep...a bit too blue if black/gray is what you were going for... BUT, not a bad color overall. Might be interesting to use it as an accent color and match other things to it. The tank would look great in that color, for example. Just an idea if you decide to keep it.
Bjorn
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Haha funny you mention that! I was hoping for it to match the tank... Not really
buzzword
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Looks awesome! Where did you find those grommets?
That was an unfortunate result from the anodizing! Being a bit "color vision impaired", the parts look more purple/ violet to me.
As I understand the process of color anodizing, it is at least 3 main steps. First the actual anodizing, in an electrolyte (acid), using a DC source. Then soaking the parts in a dye, so the still porous oxide layer can absorb the paint, then "sealing in" the color pigments by immersing in boiling water.
So is it possible to reverse this process, i.e remove the color without also having to remove the oxide layer first? Or is glass bead blasting or sanding now required?
As I understand the process of color anodizing, it is at least 3 main steps. First the actual anodizing, in an electrolyte (acid), using a DC source. Then soaking the parts in a dye, so the still porous oxide layer can absorb the paint, then "sealing in" the color pigments by immersing in boiling water.
So is it possible to reverse this process, i.e remove the color without also having to remove the oxide layer first? Or is glass bead blasting or sanding now required?
Bjorn
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They are Ducati parts. That's where I got all my grommets from recently. I've always struggled to find that stuff. They sell ehm by the piece. Cheap to!
800062651 is the part number btw
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Bjorn
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Yeah it's really depending on the light and the observer I guess haha.
Yeah that's how I understand the process! There is probably all sorts of variations to get a good result.
Interesting question regarding the removal. From what I understood from my coworker, they already stripped the first attempt by etching? So they tried to improve it. However this led to a massive amount of unusable parts for my coworker. He had custom shifting drum hard anodized, but those parts had lots of material missing. Like it was dissolved. Thank god this was not the case for all the parts.
I need to ask if they can redo do it or start over. My back up is painting but I prefer anodizing
buzzword
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Thanks! Much appreciated - cleaner than anything I could cobble together from the McMaster Carr catalog...
I totally get that it doesn't meet expectations, but I don't think it looks bad. I kinda dig the blueish color.
Bjorn
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Sharing this because you guys will probably be the only one that will ever see these haha.
Seat latch and brake line bracket
New headlight bracket with combined brake line bracket
Seat latch and brake line bracket
New headlight bracket with combined brake line bracket
You may be approaching "billet overload" soon..
Bjorn
XS650 Addict
Last pieces, might not have access to the world of CNC in the future ....
This thread and the Metisse thread are my 2 favorites !
Bjorn
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Practical question: I cant seem to upload more than one picture at one time. Is there something im missing?
Maybe your picture files are huge? Resizing to maybe 500kB or so is normally good for quick upøoading anyway.
Bjorn
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Made a new shifter with less offset, somehow the original one looked a bit weird. This one should tuck in a bit closer to the bike.
Its in there! still part of the mother-ship
Did one of my most ''favourite'' parts of any project: Painting....
I painted the subframe with all the new brackets an a bunch of other stuff i gathered over the last few months. The color black doesnt quite match the original powdercoated frame. O well, cant have it al.
This little bracket has seen so many iterations i lost count. But this one seems like its going to work! Its for holding the speed sensor of the new speedo. The idea is that it could ''pick up'' the steel bobins of the brake disk.
Its in there! still part of the mother-ship
Did one of my most ''favourite'' parts of any project: Painting....
I painted the subframe with all the new brackets an a bunch of other stuff i gathered over the last few months. The color black doesnt quite match the original powdercoated frame. O well, cant have it al.
This little bracket has seen so many iterations i lost count. But this one seems like its going to work! Its for holding the speed sensor of the new speedo. The idea is that it could ''pick up'' the steel bobins of the brake disk.
Bjorn
XS650 Addict
yeah the probably are, I dont really like the extra work of resizing everything, building the bike already costs plenty of time
But when selecting files, is its possible to upload a bunch?
