Wednesday, January 30, 2013

mounting a Unity/Nash

seems like a mystery to a lot of people...just in my few minutes of searching 'unity light mount' i found thread after thread of guys trying to come up with a way around the lack of any kind of tab or clevis on the bucket.
Here's my solution...
Lathe'd up a 1" delrin bar into a ball end with a ground HSS form tool then drilled a .375" hole through the center and tapped for 3/8-16.
milled the some flats and cross drilled a hole for a 1/4-20 retaining bolt.
made up a little tab with an angled bottom (to match angle of forks) and spray bombed it.
viola

fully adjustable and the perfect balance or form/function...just like this old light.








Monday, January 14, 2013

not all bike stuff here last week, as seems to be the case lately.
Brackets for a cantilevered porch on some multi million dollar house and some brushed 'industrial themed' handrail posts for same house.







Behner machine works horizontal bandsaw clamp

As seen in action on my Johnson 'model J' These are pretty damn nifty for holding small and or irregular shaped pieces on the horizontal, could have some potential in the mill vise as well. Thanks again Ray

Thursday, January 3, 2013


68 Commando rebuild



fun little rebuild we did last year.
new tins/new paint.
new exhaust
new cables
carb rebuild
new tail liight
etc, etc.
then i wrecked it on the shake down run and got to do it all over again..fun times.
been so busy that i kinda gave up on posting here.
trying to get back on it.