Hmm that stuff looks good, but ive never seen it here in oz!
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The greasey fingers build :)
- Thread starter Greasey Fingers
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ok ive just been reading reviews on this stuff and I WANT A CAN NOW!!!!!!!
Now DAMMMIT!!!
LuckyEight
Head-scratcher
Cut the whole bracket and buy new rearsets... 
Pork Chop
XS400 Junkie
How about welding a bloody long bar onto it and giving it some torque.
It may work or you may break something...
Either way take a video of it happening.
It may work or you may break something...
Either way take a video of it happening.
Do you have an air hammer? 3000 blows per minute will pop that out quicker than a few blows from a hand powered tool
Nah no air tools at all, I jiggered up the drill press and managed to drill a few holes through it...so im on my way
SCORE:
Mutilator - 1
Bike frame - 0
SUCCESS!!
She's out dammit So I ended up getting a drill press onto it and making a hole. Then I got a little hacksaw and weakened it by slicing it up a bit, hoping I could just smash it out after that, which I couldn't.
I used just about every power tool at my disposal to try and get this bastard out....drill, drill press, rotary tool, angle grinder. But looking back its not until I started to think outside the box that I yielded a result.
Then I thought of using the vice and putting a large socket on one end to go around the opening to allow the brake arm to come out, and a small socket on the other end to go inside the tube to force the remains of the brake arm out. And wallah out she came with no problems at all.
I think the vice would have just pushed it out without having to weaken it with the hacksaw or drilling it, easy to say in hindsight! I didn't think of the vice idea until after I drilled and hacksawed it. Because I am converting to drum brake I had the luxury of being able to destroy the part because I have the drum brake one to replace it. The frame has a few battle scars but that's what it took and ill smooth it all out.
Long story short I could have just pressed it out using the vice and sockets.
Anyway its a WIN im stoked, it was a real bastard to get out
Mutilator - 1
Bike frame - 0
SUCCESS!!
She's out dammit
So I ended up getting a drill press onto it and making a hole. Then I got a little hacksaw and weakened it by slicing it up a bit, hoping I could just smash it out after that, which I couldn't. I used just about every power tool at my disposal to try and get this bastard out....drill, drill press, rotary tool, angle grinder. But looking back its not until I started to think outside the box that I yielded a result.
Then I thought of using the vice and putting a large socket on one end to go around the opening to allow the brake arm to come out, and a small socket on the other end to go inside the tube to force the remains of the brake arm out. And wallah out she came with no problems at all.
I think the vice would have just pushed it out without having to weaken it with the hacksaw or drilling it, easy to say in hindsight! I didn't think of the vice idea until after I drilled and hacksawed it. Because I am converting to drum brake I had the luxury of being able to destroy the part because I have the drum brake one to replace it. The frame has a few battle scars but that's what it took and ill smooth it all out.
Long story short I could have just pressed it out using the vice and sockets.
Anyway its a WIN im stoked, it was a real bastard to get out
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LuckyEight
Head-scratcher
this always works
Huh you say that like you knew this the whole time! Why didn't you tell me before I hacked up the frame ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 
LuckyEight
Head-scratcher
sorry mate...I was too lazy to think about it...
If you shined up the frame like the swing arm and left theres no excuse for another driver not being able to see you!Thats the first excuse people come up with when theres an accident.But officer................................................
Sesty
H.E. Pennypacker
Seat looks goood
cheers sesty, hopefully the rear loop works out ok...
jray
XS400 Enthusiast
Hey Greasey, I'm back! Been too long. Chrome swing arm looks way cool.
I noticed theres at least 3 of us asking to shine that frame up like the swing armIS it past the point of return?
IS it past the point of return?
scorps it aint gonna happen for three reasons. Polishing the frame for chrome plating would be a bitch, chrome plating a frame may not work well due to all the nooks and crannies finish may end up peeling in the edges and corners, and ive seen a bike with a full chrome frame and I didn't like it lol.
Hey Jray where you been man, good to hear from you again! How your build going? We gonna have to do a ride one day Btw I can give you the details of the chrome plater if your interested, he did my swingarm for 70 bucks but I prepared it 100% for him so all he did was dip it and didn't guarantee the results because I prepped it.
Hey Jray where you been man, good to hear from you again! How your build going? We gonna have to do a ride one day
Btw I can give you the details of the chrome plater if your interested, he did my swingarm for 70 bucks but I prepared it 100% for him so all he did was dip it and didn't guarantee the results because I prepped it.
Well it was worth a try anyways lol.I have a mountain bike that's all polished aluminum it looks realy cool
