LTGTR
XS650 Addict
Couple of small projects I did over the last couple days.
1. Made a front stand for when I am working on the front of the bike. I needed something solid and dependable because as its been shown on the forum, as soon as the front of the bike is able to tip forward the centre stand will fold up and over she goes.
2. Made a pair of brackets for lifting the motor out of the frame using a block and tackle/endless chain. The verical parts of the bracket end up quite thin (to clear bits and pieces) so I reinforced them with 6mm flat bar welded on the horizontal. I have seen on the forum that the balance point is the rear top engine mount.
Excuse the shit welding - I recently sold my Inverter stick welder for a "you beaut" mig welder - I sucked myself in - I have never been able to do as good a weld on the mig, using flux cored or gas, as I did on my stick welder. Now, I know this shoudnt be the case, but Ive tried every setting and technique known to man to get a good weld but I cant crack it. I did spend 30 years perfecting my technique using the stick and was perfectly happy with it - then I got greedy and thought the mig would be the next best thing. Oh well - more practice I suppose or the mig is getting sold for a stick.
Regards Ray.
1. Made a front stand for when I am working on the front of the bike. I needed something solid and dependable because as its been shown on the forum, as soon as the front of the bike is able to tip forward the centre stand will fold up and over she goes.
2. Made a pair of brackets for lifting the motor out of the frame using a block and tackle/endless chain. The verical parts of the bracket end up quite thin (to clear bits and pieces) so I reinforced them with 6mm flat bar welded on the horizontal. I have seen on the forum that the balance point is the rear top engine mount.
Excuse the shit welding - I recently sold my Inverter stick welder for a "you beaut" mig welder - I sucked myself in - I have never been able to do as good a weld on the mig, using flux cored or gas, as I did on my stick welder. Now, I know this shoudnt be the case, but Ive tried every setting and technique known to man to get a good weld but I cant crack it. I did spend 30 years perfecting my technique using the stick and was perfectly happy with it - then I got greedy and thought the mig would be the next best thing. Oh well - more practice I suppose or the mig is getting sold for a stick.
Regards Ray.