widdy Posted October 31, 2008 Report Posted October 31, 2008 I've always hankered after a ducati or TRX and a VFR, call it madness but i fancy building a trellis framed VFR 750, after all i've got a crappy vfr in the garden. Has anyone ever build a frame at home?? if so how??
spacemonkey Posted October 31, 2008 Report Posted October 31, 2008 I've always hankered after a ducati or TRX and a VFR, call it madness but i fancy building a trellis framed VFR 750, after all i've got a crappy vfr in the garden. Has anyone ever build a frame at home?? if so how?? Get the Ian Bradley Book.... Volume 2 is most useful for this stuff. It will take you through the materials and construction methods, jig building, etc.....
redmarque Posted October 31, 2008 Report Posted October 31, 2008 I've always hankered after a ducati or TRX and a VFR, call it madness but i fancy building a trellis framed VFR 750, after all i've got a crappy vfr in the garden. Has anyone ever build a frame at home?? if so how?? home frame building - try Tony Foales book Motorcycle Handling and Chassis Design . he sells it online from his website http://www.tonyfoale.com/ lots of brain ache technical stuff - but has a good section on practical chassis building, jigs and materials etc.
Boylan Posted November 2, 2008 Report Posted November 2, 2008 The best material material to use would be T45 brazed or tigged as it ain't as tricky as 4130 to stick together, which needs heat treating afterwards. Check out http://www.curtisbikes.co.uk/info.html. You could always just make it out of cold drawn steel with a mig which would be easier and cheaper just not as light.
widdy Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Posted November 5, 2008 Get the Ian Bradley Book.... Volume 2 is most useful for this stuff. It will take you through the materials and construction methods, jig building, etc..... Cheers LAds, i've now got the John Bradley book winging its way to me (£42) , just for refereence Ian Bradley makes model steam train, not to be confused with high performance motorcycles also found the Eurospares website in USA but it's very old, with few pictures and not been updated for a while. i'm hopeing the build should be fairly easy as i'm going to copy the VFR frame as Honda spent a couple of quid getting the geometry right, and who am i to argue, hopeing to retain the stock tank, seat and subframe with some MT01 style exhausts. Update- Books now arrived, looks very promising, covers everything from making frame jigs to casting alloy parts
widdy Posted November 11, 2008 Author Report Posted November 11, 2008 My copy only cost £38 I bought both volumes though, may as well learn something about the theory as well. Have you ever welded anything before? I brazed some bits of scrap together in metalwork lessons at school some 20-odd years ago and that's it. This could be a very interesting build-off... £4 Postage! did some welding many moons ago, it was a crappy mig and i could never get on with it, wire feed etc, i'm going to get my hands on a cheap arc welder which will be easier to control, gas is out of the question. I could always ask me dad he's a welding inspector You have a head start already, your bikes in bits and you have a garage i'm still pulling mine apart and need to a build shed/garage, wonder how much my consultant builder will charge for that. plus my engine has ahole in it, still runs though! anyone for a custard cream
deviant Posted November 12, 2008 Report Posted November 12, 2008 it was a crappy mig and i could never get on with it, wire feed etc, i'm going to get my hands on a cheap arc welder which will be easier to control You, sir, are fucking wierd if you find arc/stick welding easier than MIG, particularly on the sort of thinnish wall tube you're likely to use for a bike frame. Ahh well, each to his own.
widdy Posted November 12, 2008 Author Report Posted November 12, 2008 You, sir, are fucking wierd if you find arc/stick welding easier than MIG, particularly on the sort of thinnish wall tube you're likely to use for a bike frame. Ahh well, each to his own. point taken, probably will go with gas in the end as i've found a place that sells small home oxy kits, don't think the neighbours would be too happy with a pair of big bottles in my garden. i rearly didn't get on with mig at all, maybe my mates kit was a bit on the cheap side?
scwirral Posted November 13, 2008 Report Posted November 13, 2008 I could always ask me dad he's a welding inspector Maybe welding is the exception that proves the rule, but in my experience, the 'inspectors' are the people who couldn't do shit themselves. I'm a teacher. All those who couldn't do that left when they set up Ofsted......
widdy Posted November 13, 2008 Author Report Posted November 13, 2008 Maybe welding is the exception that proves the rule, but in my experience, the 'inspectors' are the people who couldn't do shit themselves. I'm a teacher. All those who couldn't do that left when they set up Ofsted...... lets not get personel this is about bikes not slagging people fathers off i'm pretty sure he could spot a good or bad weld, he's been responsiable for some North Sea gas pipelines, Hong kong Airport (not all of it), conway tunnel, and a couple of oil rigs, so yeah possiably might be able to tell me if my weldings shit or not.
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