Just thought this would be a cool new topic. If there is already one in existence please let me know so I can delete this one, or a mod can do it. As for me I finished my under tail project and rode the crap out of it.
What did you do to your SV today? (mods, farkles, maintenance, etc)
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I think you're going to the wrong school then, when I went to school at UW-Stout all we had to do was pass a basic shop safety quiz and have someone give us a demonstration on what ever machine we wanted to use. After that you were on your own.I'm still waiting on a friend to come over and help me change my tires (and for the snow to thaw), so I drew a little radiator guard in SolidWorks. If anyone wants to machine one, let me know. I can create a drawing for you. I still need to get the correct spacing for the mounting holes. This one's kind of basic, but I planned on putting somehting like it on my bike. Might change the text on it. Any opinions?
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I might model a few parts later and try to have some of my friends in the MET department machine them. For some reason, the university doesn't trust us engineers alone in the machine shop.
Also, machining that would be terribly inefficient, you're far better off cutting it with a laser out of sheet metal and bending to finish. I'd bet that part is around $30-50 lazered out at your local shop as a one off part, where as machine time on a mill is typically $100/hour and they start charging as they set up the machine.
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+100.
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I would say it blocks too much airflow as it is now.
I agree with frank-the-farmer - that's not a part you would want to CNC. Cutting the text would be a problem. Laser or waterjet would be much more efficient.
Unless you need it for a project, they are out there to purchase.
MSU is weird. We are allowed in the shop, as long as we don't interfere with the work of the METs. It's two separate degrees here; the METs get priority on shop time, so they pretty much hoard the machines. An ME needs to either have instructor approval or a friend in the MET department to even get access to a machine. Basically what that amounts to is that we never get shop time, because the METs never leave. We usually draft the parts, do all the boring stress/fatigue analysis on them, then hand a drawing off to the machinist and never actually see any work being done. It's not the best system. I did more metal and wood work my junior year in high school than I have in four years here.
And machining was the wrong word. I had planned on using a computer-controlled plasma cutter to cut the pattern out, then bend the edges with a brake press. Since I've been here, I've just gotten into the bad habit of calling pretty much all metalwork "machining." I should probably work on that.
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Didn't work, I couldn't get the mesh to break away from the frame without mangling and breaking it.
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Dremel?...
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Instead of doing some school work I decided to mill out some turn signal adaptors for a naked second gen.
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Lol. Sixteen years of my life could have started with that phrase.
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Well, last friday I sold my last one.
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You can't make me!!
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Uhm... He's a mod... Yes, he can... At least temporarily...
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It's ok. I'll post a build thread for my new trackie. Errbody likes build threads right?
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