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I decided on flat, drag bars on risers for the bike, so bought a set of drag bars and looked around for some risers. Couldn't find any I liked, so I made my own. I started off with two slabs of 25mm aluminium, chucked them in the four jaw and turned them to the shape I wanted, then turned them...

Backyard butcher.

Here's a catch can I've just finished, I was going to plumb the read valve breather I made into the pancake filters, but decided a catch can would be better than feeding blowby gas and particulates into the intakes. Its made of 42mm tube with four baffles. Instead of welding the baffles inside...

Now the bike is almost finished, just needs the seat covered and tyres, so I put on my glasses and cast a critical eye over it. Story of my life – never, ever happy, and what do you know, I found a few things I’m not happy with, so, I can start making parts for it again, whoo hoo!. First up was...

A brake hose dividing block. This is a new brake line block I machined up to replace the original. The original hoses were rotted, so I replaced them and did away with the two steel tubes that connect the hose to the calliper and the hose from the master cylinder to the divider. Unfortunately...

I think the name of the Mitutoyo fake says it all: Mi turd gd!

An optical centre punch. i made a while ago as a project. If you're like me and have trouble centre punching on the line, this little gizmo is worth its weight in gold.

There’s a lot of trial in everything I build for this bike, I change my mind often, binning parts I made and buildIng new ones with a slightly different look or design changes to incorporate something else into the design. These side panels are a good example: Originally I built some full length...

I made a hydraulic clutch slave cylinder to replace the cable, cable actuated is too heavy for my fused fingers. I bought some hydraulic ram seals and built the cylinder around them, body is 6061 and piston is bronze. Bore is dead on 25mm, piston i 24.7, a really nice fit. I still have to...

I'm not suggesting anything, just telling what I did for my 280 x600 lathe. I don't have an SM 1440. You do what you like with it. You clearly are misunderstanding what I've said and what this thread is about. Read the original, first post, look at the lathe, does it look like a new...