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Maker Faire Coverage Pt. 1

December 25, 2016

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Part I: Building a Propane Forge

I have been holding off on posting any of the progress that I have been doing on the Propane forge assembly because there is a lot of information, it will be dense, and I apologize to the casual reader. First things first, if you are not aware, Frankie, Chad and I have been working on recreating a forge for each of us before Frankie leaves to teach out of state. in the above photo I have a 1/4" to 1/8" brass barb fitting and a mig welding tip in my hand. The reason is that these will turn into our propane jet for our burner assemblies. Because I have access and its an excuse to use the Southbend lathe, I chucked the fitting into my three jaw self centering chuck and proceeded to drill out the barb fitting. Close-up view. Another view. I could be wrong on this, but I determined that the threads on the mig tip fit best as 1/4-28 so that is the tap I used to tap the brass fitting. Finished view. For the jet I used a 0.0...

Brewtown Rumble 2017

The Brewtown Rumble has come and gone already. Yvette and I decided to check it out and support our friends Cyndi and Nick at the Moto-fied booth. For those of you that are not familiar with Moto-fied, we are a full custom shop offering sandblasting, powder coating, anodizing, wheel truing, fabrication work, and carburetor rebuilding. So Yvette and I sold shirts and merch while Cyndi and Nick got to explore the old Pabst city. There were some beautiful samples of Ducati Monzas and I have never seen so many Bultacos together in one place before! As some of you might already know, Yvette and I have been working on getting a Bultaco Alpina back on the road again, and I have been telling Yvette Bultacos are quite rare. Well, by the looks of things at the rumble they sure are out there still! I decided to bring two cameras to the event, my Nikon D5000 and then my medium format Kowa Six. As soon as I can find a sc...

Triumph Tiger Cub Transmission Inspection

I worked on the Triumph minimally this weekend due to working overtime at the museum, but I did have enough time to remove the right inner case again and inspect the transmission. When Frankie and I were putting together the right inner case it felt like the gear selector was very hard to turn. This came after I had to order a new splined shaft that was sold as a "weld on" replacement for the booger-ed up shaft that came with the engine. So Frankie, being the true maker that he is, cut off the old spline, turned the new shaft on his lathe, and welded the new shaft to the old in record time. Frankie had been concerned that maybe the welds were rubbing onto the machined engine surfaces and that was causing it to be so "stiff." That being said, I didn't want to risk any damage to this engine, its by first rebuild, I don't want my first rebuild to end on a sour note! The RTV black gasket maker that we applied to the inner case was a real pain to rem...

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