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Buellgler
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 06:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

anyone have any idea where I can get some belt guards that aren't carbon fiber or acrylic? something that looks good and is actually functional? thanks in advance!
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Oldog
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 07:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

there is someone that was making them from stainless on E-bay
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Littlebuggles
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 10:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

You mean besides the stock stuff? I have my take off hugger and lower guard, you are welcome to them.

-Mike
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Koz5150
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 10:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I designed the piece that was being sold on Ebay, it is a friend of mine who is producing them.
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Denfromphilly
Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 09:26 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Forgive me if I am wrong but a lot of the pieces on Ebay have a pic of a stainless guard but the text says that you will get a belt guard that is not as shown and is painted. I want shiny stainless ones to go with my sprocket cover! Den 99X1
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Lemonchili_x1
Posted on Friday, July 01, 2005 - 10:00 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

These are some guards I made out of some perforated steel I had. Simple, functional, stops passengers getting their foot stuck in the belt : )
Turned out to be easier to make than I thought - I used the original plastic hugger and lower guard as templates, cut them out with a jigsaw, cleaned up with a file. Both guards have a small strip riveted to them to stiffen them slightly. Bent to shape, painted them silver, job done!
They're probably not to everyone's taste, but they work for me : )
cheers,
lemonchili

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Bomber
Posted on Friday, July 01, 2005 - 10:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

go out to yer garage and make sumpin

hunk o alumuminum/stailess, a drill, edge of yer bech for a brake, an hour, and, Hey Presto, custom guard
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Road_thing
Posted on Friday, July 01, 2005 - 11:22 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Bomber, you are an artiste!

rt
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Bomber
Posted on Friday, July 01, 2005 - 11:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Thang -- thank you kindly -- while I may be approaching that area, I am no engineer, as evidence by the fact that the guard pictured above is the thrid I've made, in ever-increasing guages of aluminum, due to vibration-induced stress fractured in the first two ;-}

if I'd only paid attention in math classes in school, stead of smokin in the boys room -- sigh

interesting side note on makin stuff yerself -- back when I was makin a dozen or so knives a year, I was bemoaning my lack of pro-level equiment, and how wonderful my knives would be if only I had a zoomy $2G belt-grinder, ,the knife-weilding population would beat a path to my door

that chirstmas, my mom-in-law received a book on metalworking artists around the world -- the picture of the guy engraving a beautiful silver platter, using his feet as a vice, a nail as his graver, and a rock as his hammer, well and truely shut me up

no, I ask for a really HIGH-QUALITY nail for christmas
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Oldog
Posted on Friday, July 01, 2005 - 10:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Bomber:
on a serious note have you annealed the aluminium before bending it?

from the porch the ol dog
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