| Author | Message | ||
     Phelan |
Anyone know where I can get squares (in varying sizes) of raw billet? A buddy of mine has a lathe and a bunch of tools and start building some one-off parts for my S2. I think I'll start with a shifter that doesn't snag my pants and a new brake pedal... | ||
| Jramsey |
Try the local machine/fab shops they might sell you some of there drops/scrap. | ||
| Trouble_enabler |
On eBay: * Home > * Buy > * Business & Industrial > * Search for "aluminum plate" | ||
| Sportyeric |
I go to a scrap metal dealer near the airport. (Lots of aluminum on planes.) Check out my profile pic for the shifter I made using a drill press as a milling machine. (Message edited by Sportyeric on May 08, 2009) | ||
| Phelan |
yeah that's the idea. After my stock shifter with worn bushing caught my $60 jeans, ripped them, and made me drop the bike to the left at a stop light, I don't want a boomerang shifter anymore... | ||
| Texastechx1 |
always wanted to make a shifter as well... POST PICS!!! | ||
| Sportyeric |
Posted the only pic I have quite a while ago here: http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/384 2/8061.html?996434688#POST69784 Basically stole the design from Banke but adjusted the pedal length for the application. The trick to the splines is to cut off a shifter shaft, sharpen it on a lathe, and ram it through with a press. That was the hard part. | ||
| Gowindward |
McMaster.com is a great source for small quantities. | ||
| Fast1075 |
W.W. Grainger also sells aluminum in different sizes/shapes/alloys...flat/plate/rod/etc the T6061-T6 is a good general and durable material...I use it for most motorcycle widgets like spacers, footpegs, braces and brackets.. |
