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Post by Rocketdog on May 11, 2009 17:25:19 GMT -5
How do ya'll go about cutting the CVT cover concave clutch area out completely and get such straight lines? Kliff, I think I saw a photo of you doing it. What's the secret? Ya use a compass and a Dremel or what guy?
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Post by kliff on May 11, 2009 17:32:39 GMT -5
I used my trusty dusty milling machine, not sure about the other guys.
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Post by Rebel on May 11, 2009 19:37:11 GMT -5
I got one of those cheap harbor freight 4" angle grinders for about $12.00 and it comes with a spare set of brushes, I've used it at home for about 6 yrs with on problems, lost the spare set of brushes, but for that price it is certainly replaceable. But if I had "Jr's" money, I'd buy a heavy duty Milwaukee.
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Post by Rocketdog on May 12, 2009 2:36:23 GMT -5
I thought that looked like too clean a cut to be done by hand Kilff. Unfortunately I don't have an end mill at my disposal. Thanks JR for the detailed instructions and well done. I have an electric Milwaukee grinder and a pneumatic cutoff saw, but I'm not sure I trust my hand eye coordination to do a clean job of it. Think I'll check around at the local machine shops or go the large hole design method.
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Post by kliff on May 12, 2009 5:48:40 GMT -5
No sweat RD...
Years ago, I'd have done it with the grinder to, and a larger mill file to finish. But with that , recently, under used mill sitting there.....
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Post by Rebel on May 12, 2009 14:20:27 GMT -5
You could cut the hole out with a saber saw then polish it off with the grinder and sanding disk to make it nice and round. I've cut some pretty nice holes with a saber saw, you just need to take your time and not cut too much off, always err on the side of needing to cut more not needing to cut less. It is harder to put metal back on than to take more off.
Hmm, I wonder, I used a hole saw to cut holes in a cement slab for a wrought iron fence I put up, bet that would cut a good hole in aluminum, you can rent those at Home Depot, I used a four inch hole saw from them.
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Post by kuzikood on May 12, 2009 23:55:25 GMT -5
i did mine with a ryobi angle grinder with a black and decker cuttingdisk i just freehanded it  |
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Post by kuzikood on May 13, 2009 0:01:46 GMT -5
btw im going to be building a small vacuformer soon as wife will let me , and make some clear lexan covers to prevent road debris but still let it breathe if it works out i may make a few extras if anyone will be intrested but it prolly wont be for a month or so ive been wanting to make a vacuformer for a while and theres so many nifty things that can be made out of lexan for a scooter so i can prolly justify the slight expese of making the vacuformer
hehehehe hello super one of a kind custom scooterstuff hehehehehe
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Post by kliff on May 13, 2009 17:36:31 GMT -5
btw im going to be building a small vacuformer soon as wife will let me , and make some clear lexan covers to prevent road debris but still let it breathe if it works out i may make a few extras if anyone will be intrested but it prolly wont be for a month or so ive been wanting to make a vacuformer for a while and theres so many nifty things that can be made out of lexan for a scooter so i can prolly justify the slight expese of making the vacuformer hehehehe hello super one of a kind custom scooterstuff hehehehehe Now THAT would be cool..... |
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Post by Rebel on May 13, 2009 23:48:43 GMT -5
Vacuformer, seems I had one of those when I was a kid to make little plastic toys with. Seriously though, post how you make yours it would be nice to see. What kind of heat source you use, how you hook your vacuum up to it, how you vent it for the air to be sucked out, how you make the mold.
I did have a little one when I was a kid, seems it used a hand pump vacuum.
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Post by kuzikood on May 14, 2009 0:34:11 GMT -5
airtight wooden box with a pegboard floor and 1'' square wooden posts in cener of every square foot for support......... hooked to a shopvacm to pull the vacum and you need a metal frame to clamp polycarbonant into and a standard old kitchen oven to heat the plastic till it just starts to droop place on wooden box turn on shopvac to suck down on to mold/plug as theyre called and then once its all the way down on the mold turn on fans to cool the plastic
goole "homemade vacuformer" theres tons of builds and plans available for free
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Post by Rocketdog on May 14, 2009 7:16:42 GMT -5
Hey a hole saw. Now why didn't I think of that. Thanks folks.
Great idea there Kuzi.
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Post by kuzikood on May 20, 2009 22:52:24 GMT -5
maybe in a week or two ill bee able to build my vacuformer ...dude how cool would it be to have clear engine shroud on a gy6 hmmmmmmmmmmm
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Post by Rebel on May 21, 2009 1:03:32 GMT -5
Kuzikood,
What do you plan to use for a mold? You should be able to use the original cover because it will make a new cover that would be slightly too large.
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Post by therustyaxe on May 21, 2009 3:31:57 GMT -5
Kuzi, Nice job!
Where are the other pics from the OG question?
I am curious.
Paul
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CAN YOU HELP ME OUT MAN,AS i LOST ME JOB DUE TO NOT BEING ABLE TO GET THERE?ANY INF