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  • Rob S.
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    • Dec 2013
    • 9412
    • New York City
    #1

    1100EZ fork damper knobs

    I'm having difficulty locating the black plastic knobs on the bottom of each fork numbered 1 through 4.

    I've looked on PartsNMore, Babbitts and PartsFish. Mine look like they'd disintegrate if I touched them, so I haven't.
    1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

    2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.
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    • posplayr
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      • Dec 2007
      • 23673
      • Tucson Az
      #2
      Do a search, guys are making them out of brass.

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        • storm 64
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          #3
          Originally posted by posplayr
          Do a search, guys are making them out of brass.
          Now that would be cool, brass or stainless... a nice added touch.
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            • Rob S.
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              #4
              Originally posted by storm 64
              Now that would be cool, brass or stainless... a nice added touch.
              Yes it would. Money's no object (even though I have none) if it purties up Suzi and doesn't add weight.
              1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

              2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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                • Guest
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Rob S.
                  I'm having difficulty locating the black plastic knobs on the bottom of each fork numbered 1 through 4.

                  I've looked on PartsNMore, Babbitts and PartsFish. Mine look like they'd disintegrate if I touched them, so I haven't.
                  Those have been discontinued as far as I know of. I made replacements out of square brass stock as mentioned by posplayr.


                  Mark

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                    • Rob S.
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                      • Dec 2013
                      • 9412
                      • New York City
                      #6
                      Originally posted by mmattockx
                      Those have been discontinued as far as I know of. I made replacements out of square brass stock as mentioned by posplayr.


                      Mark
                      Got any for sale?
                      1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

                      2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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                        • Guest
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Rob S.
                          Got any for sale?
                          Nope. I just bought some brass stock at a local hardware/reno store and then used a file and drill press to shape/drill/tap them. It was an afternoon project IIRC but that was ~9 years ago. You need to drill a hole for the shaft and then cross drill and tap for a set screw. The shaft has a flat on it for the screw to seat against. I used square stock so that I could line up the flats to correspond with the 4 damper settings and just center punched dots on the faces for the 1, 2, 3, and 4 positions.


                          Mark

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                            • posplayr
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                              • 23673
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                              #8
                              Ask Agemax, he recently bought a small lathe and is doing small projects.I would probably use round stock but then again, I got away from teh stock forks a while back.

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