Damper, lower bracket. Location and jig.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:25 pm
Robi sent me a pm, but other might be interested. Well, maybe.
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
Rob,Robi D wrote: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
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
