TheCafeKid

[TheCafeKid]

Yea I got some experiance in shapping metal. I found two site that sell metalshaping tools.

http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=1227&itemType=CATEGORY&path=1%2C3%2C639%2C1208&KickerID=179&KICKER

http://www.daggertools.com/23.html?sm=11491

Doood we're going to have to go into business...i have an heavily experienced welder...and if you are good at metal shapeing and Riot is learning, i wanna learn we can start building some CHIT!! do you know how much cash we could make building tanks and seats for the cafe junkies out there?? Some of the guys on the DTT forum are paying 1000 bucks for alloy tanks and 3 or 400 for hammered alu seats...and they have to get them from overseas!

[Ironriot]

Yea I got some experiance in shapping metal. I found two site that sell metalshaping tools.

http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=1227&itemType=CATEGORY&path=1%2C3%2C639%2C1208&KickerID=179&KICKER

http://www.daggertools.com/23.html?sm=11491

Thanks for the link to daggertools. I think I'm gonna have a looksee around in there.... I've tried looking through eastwood but I don't think they offer singles of hammers or dollies. Seems like they only carry sets

[TheCafeKid]

Nah I got them but they're not on. Sharp eye though. I haven't really torqued down the valve cover yet so I've yet to put them on

Bit of advice...wrap some teflon tape rount the plugs, when ya take em out sometimes they wanna leak..happened to me, and the teflon tape worked like a charm..or if ya want you can buy new ones from Z1..they even have aluminum ones if im not mistaken...but im cheap, so teflon worked great...lol

[Ironriot]

Doood we're going to have to go into business...i have an heavily experienced welder...and if you are good at metal shapeing and Riot is learning, i wanna learn we can start building some CHIT!! do you know how much cash we could make building tanks and seats for the cafe junkies out there?? Some of the guys on the DTT forum are paying 1000 bucks for alloy tanks and 3 or 400 for hammered alu seats...and they have to get them from overseas!

Dude I'm moving to Ohio lol. You know what I envy about where you live? The fact that no one in the world can blacksmith like New Englanders. You're so close to them, imagine the information that can be learned. Plus I've read that getting metal working things like forges, good quality anvils and all that stuff is easy to find and cheap to acquire because its in abundance in that area. I'm down for selling 1000 tanks lol

[n1elkyfan]

I'm looking around there myself. Trying to make a x-mas wish list

[Ironriot]

Bit of advice...wrap some teflon tape rount the plugs, when ya take em out sometimes they wanna leak..happened to me, and the teflon tape worked like a charm..or if ya want you can buy new ones from Z1..they even have aluminum ones if im not mistaken...but im cheap, so teflon worked great...lol

Yep I'm cheap too so teflon sounds dandy. Actuallly I need to stop being lazy and take off that gasket. I haven't yet because I don't want to wait for the replacement. And there's no way that thing is coming off without some damage. The PO JB Welded it on there.... Can you say DUMBASS?

[TheCafeKid]

Check this sh1t out..this guy gets BANK for these tanks..but from what i hear he's impossible to deal with, takes forever, and isnt very good with customer service...keep in mind the exchange rate...they dont look soo damn spendy in Pounds...but they are in USD.

http://www.thetankshop.com/

[Ironriot]

Check this sh1t out..this guy gets BANK for these tanks..but from what i hear he's impossible to deal with, takes forever, and isnt very good with customer service...keep in mind the exchange rate...they dont look soo damn spendy in Pounds...but they are in USD.
http://www.thetankshop.com/

Beautiful tanks for sure. but most of them are pushing OVER a thousand

Nevermind. Looking again I've changed my mind. The work is pretty sloppy. His welds need work and the metal is VERY distorted. Its bending light everywhere. I remember reading in one of my car magazines about this one guy who does metal work and is so good and finishes his work to such a high degree that it doesn't need that thin layer of bondo that painters usually put on just to get that super smooth look. You just paint and you're good.

[Ironriot]

You know speaking of cam ends and those round plugs I remember checking out this one dude's bike that had interesting cam ends on. They had fins machined into them to match the jugs. Only they were shorter. They looked awesome. Unfortunately they were already on when he got the bike so he doesn't know where they came from. I'm pretty sure someone machined them

[TheCafeKid]

yah see man if we could get that down pat we could make some bucks...Ive even thought of a economical way of making custom tanks using existing tanks and making facades for them. Adding shaped metal to them so you dont neccessarily have to worry about YOUR seems holding as the real tank is inside...

[TheCafeKid]

You know speaking of cam ends and those round plugs I remember checking out this one dude's bike that had interesting cam ends on. They had fins machined into them to match the jugs. Only they were shorter. They looked awesome. Unfortunately they were already on when he got the bike so he doesn't know where they came from. I'm pretty sure someone machined them

Thats a popular thing with the SOHC honda guys...they make alot of those for them, but ive yet to find em for GSs..finned stator covers, clutch and points covers, Some guys drill what they call "speedholes" in their sprocket covers..dunno how that makes it any faster except that they try to get rid of as much weight as possible..lol

[TheCafeKid]

You know speaking of cam ends and those round plugs I remember checking out this one dude's bike that had interesting cam ends on. They had fins machined into them to match the jugs. Only they were shorter. They looked awesome. Unfortunately they were already on when he got the bike so he doesn't know where they came from. I'm pretty sure someone machined them

I was actually refering to the halfmoon plugs that go in the end of your camcase...Under the round covers...didnt know if thats what you were talking about.

[Ironriot]

Hammer and Dolly Set

GR stupid photobucket, please hold while I upload my photos elsewhere

This is the set


Heavy duty hammer, the round side is heavier. I've already learned that on my own. It knocks down bump and well pretty much any kind of imperfection alot faster than the other hammers


Hammer with an edge at one end. This'll probably make a very good tool for pound in edges or something


EH YEAH.... my girlfriend ain't coming near this one. She'll probably try to kill me with it

[n1elkyfan]

I had one guy tell me about this.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mkaCJ5gC3jI

I think it would be pretty easy to make.

[TheCafeKid]

Sweeet...how much did that run ya?? And i ask again..howed you get that rattle can so damn shiny?