Damper, lower bracket. Location and jig.

[Knowledge]

Robi sent me a pm, but other might be interested. Well, maybe.

hi knowledge,
i saw your posting regarding brazing nuts onto a pair of drum links. i have a set of these and would like to TIG weld on the hardware to make these accept dampers. i recall years ago seeing in scootering that there was a shop that had made up a jig for doing this. my question for you is what did you use to determine the location on the link?
thanks
robi

Rob,

I hope you don't mind me taking your pm and making it into thread on this subject.

Whether others think it was a good idea to braze these damper brackets on or not (to be honest, there haven't been any bad posts, but it seems that people prefer TIG), I thought I would explain how I jigged the lower damper brackets in place.

Rob asked how I decided on the location of the lower brackets, and I was able to do this because I had some bolt-on items that I used for comparision. I hope the photos help you see where they should be locacated.

I intended to use 8mm bolts to secure the bottom of the of my dampers, so I used long M8 nuts, similar to the ones that come on the top of the barrel. You have the slice the bottom of the long nut

[tony]

I'm sure braising em will be fine-anyone? Only downside would be getting them plated? Can you chrome over the braise?

[sean brady scooters]

as far as i know you can..............

[tony]

Martin, yes you can

[Robi D]

this is great. thanks again.

[red ghost]

One problem I see is; what's stopping the hooks(where the axel goes thru) from bending outwards during the welding process?

When I go back to work on Monday,I'll bring home the jig I made,might clear the above up.

[Knowledge]

LG,

I just don't think that it is getting that hot during the brazing process. There is no lateral force on the links during the welding, so it won't bend.

ML

[CPH Lambretta]

I need some damper lugs welding on to some fork links, is there anybody on here that can help me out?
I don't mind paying for it if someone can help.
Cheers in advance Nick

[RICSPEED]

mb were converting them at one point

[teamv]

Give frank a ring at scooter inavasions ,he did mine we i bought the external spring/ dampers.