Tolerance

 I work to .003 thou plus or minus on everything but engine work. Rough carpentry included....And that's what we targeted. 

So this kid was a prisoner, basically, indoctrinated into my warped mind of how I do things and my philosophy on life within the confines of this shop time.  

All told, she held that tolerance under my guidance. Too early to tell if the philosophy stuck....

Here is a dump since last post for the 3 of you paying attention.

Bungs spun out and gettin glued on

Little brace and viola....a drop peg is born

Lessons in bearing and seal replacement

Leverage, alignment and patience

Lessons in controlled assembly

These some danged nice pieces of hardware here

S&S Trees, Ohlins legs. A little here, a little there...

Spoonin and cussin

I reanodized this wheel. It was a used item and had been hammered from cushions, it cleaned up nicely

A midships fuel cell

Routing and revising the installation

Reuse of the factory filter and hoses, slightly modified

Pinch clamps, pinche.

I made this turnbuckle tool for swingarms years ago. Makes swing checks totally fun.

Wet tests, no drippy drippy

Relocation of the solenoid clips

Lessons in offset holes and make-a-filler

Spotting, drilling, and tapping lessons

Transferring positions

Using every available inch and getting CG as low as possible

Flat pattern layout and holecutters!

Arts and crafts always in season

Tricking the switches

Nothing is lighter than a hole, ignore the offsets

Zaria is a naturally talented TIG welder. I look forward to seeing if she pursues this skill.

Battery tray

Zaria and her Grandpa Rodger. (My Father-In-law)

Tray commitment

Clearance, clarence!

Glad this is protected by a mudguard

Lots of put it on, measure, take it out, fabricate, put it back, check....

Tailsection going together for the last time

Structural epoxy has its place

Pile of relays just dangling aint too cool

Wheely and Zar

Wheely in deep with Zar's mom, Melissa

Finally, wiring lessons

And termination lessons

And throttle installation lessons

Bench test, ready for fire-up

Popped right off, minor idle adjustments needed

Utilizing every opportunity, here Zar plots a bolt circle we need to place in a brake rotor adapter. In my car, while driving. 

My "easy" way to add slot length to the SA

Demonstrations of math learned and methods to implement.

Holecutters are magic

Slow and steady. With Boelube.

Pilots matter

Finished by hand

Here Zar is moving the table to the desired offset for the bolt circle

Lessons in reading the Vernier on my rotary table

Spot, clearance drill, chamfer, tap, vacuum, move to the next. In that order.

Repeat.

Nailed it. (BTW, we measured the Rotor TIR at .004", well within my self-imposed tolerance of +/- .003")

Quick change Lowery. Oooh, daaang!

Now, theres all this to line up

Plotting and verifying

Introduction to snap gages

Zar getting the feel

Starting to look like a weapon

Milling down the axle blocks for a better fit

Chain work and gearing lessons

Silver sharpies are awesome for notes

Rear rugwork

Couple custom spacers and we have rear wheelage

Swingarmy

Eyeing it up

Clipping along

Make a transfer point

Hot glue (see Arts and Crafts)

Then, just unthread it to act as a jackbolt and transfer the center to the tailsection

Boop.

Hieroglyphs

Prepare the gashole!

Edgy for that finished look

Breaver

Zar kinda skwooshed, but stoked.

Breavin'