Thursday, 1 September 2011

Mounts away

My Mounts are made, in draft form only, not really sure how or what to do to them to make then look a bit better but they serve their purpose for now even if they are ugly.
I really feel good about this my soft office hands are now scared with the mark of real work. The frame is taking shape and its time to spend some of the eBay momey from the CB. So I get s sheet of Aluminum, switches, a green light for me neutral, zip ties, heat shrink and 20 meters of colured wire.
of course the wire is to thin so i have to then buy more, the heat shrinks are to thin and my lovely new grinder chews up the aluminum. gheees!!
I have to cut my seat pad from the aluminum the old fashined way; by hand. The sun is shinning, the boss is doing the gardening and after 3 hours of sawing and filing in the sweating sun. I give up! have a drink wish i still smoked then cracked on and finished my seat pan. I wish, I wish I had just spent some money and brought one. It was not a labour of love, it killed me
I now have a frame with engine, the wheels fit, the electrics are in a collection of jiffy bags awaiting stuff, the seat is cut out. Problem! how to I shape the seat, or even just put a bend in it so i don't slide in to the wheel and rip the skin from my ass. P.s that problem is still out standing so for the time being I get the wiring loom out and and she how she fits. I made a bracket for the coils and attached that bracket to the top engine mounts (I fine peice of work that gave no injuries what so ever)

1 comment:

  1. i fashioned my seat by hammering it against an empty gas bottle...

    you will soon find yourself looking around the house, garden and surrounding area for things with the perfect radius to bend things on.

    Lamp posts are a great radius for bending things on, as for bending solid round bar - stick it down a water drain and use that to bend it....

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