Mmmm, hard anodized parts.
Mmmm, hard anodized parts.
Saw you were hard anodising those gibs - or as I prefer to call them ASS - Aeroflight sliding segments...
Don't fully understand the rationale there. I know the Bighorn has lasted well past any life expectancy Kawasaki may have had but I wouldn't have thought you'd see a lot of wear on those bits for it's replacement.
Good find Husa - very interesting!
It's really just a good example of how foundry is morphing and (to me) this is most suitable for high volume production.
The first time I really took notice was when caride tips for machine tools started to become popular in the late sixties but it's certainly progressed since then.
However the first time I actually came into contact with the process was in an Ariel Arrow gearbox where they tried to be cheapskates by making one of the bearings in the gearbox out of sintered iron! - that wasn't a howling success I might add.
The idea was that the loose bond would made it porous, therefore keep it permanently lubricated with oil, however, normal bronze was (often) used as a replacement when the iron failed!
Strokers Galore!
Yeah, but I'm a cheap bastard, probably would have used brass.
Hard against soft, I think I can remember back that far...
Sintering - while I can't see what Husa has posted, it's definitely the way of the future for a lot of components. GM I believe were using it to make conrods a while back. Pretty well all valve guides in modern 4T's are now sintered. Every modern bike gearbox I've pulled down seems to use sintered shift forks now. Except for the Classic replica stuff which as they're small batch production are using investment castings.
GIBs installed
throttle belt lay out, bottom pully will be on an eccentric bearing housing for system tension, top pully will have the TPS and cable drive quadrant (throttle cable). left hand pully is 10T , right hand pully is 12T, I want one to open a little more than the other.
That is cool. I still dont fully understand it, but its still cool.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Yeah that bit is obvious but I'd kinda need to see it working to fully click what operates what. . . when.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Manufacturing the water pump/autolube plastic drive gear.
acetal, should work well.
Fletto.... what kind of range will you be able to acquire with the inlet timing?
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