Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The Tab is on

After a week or two I have something thats going to work. It's not perfect, but it works and I can live with that. This is the 4th tab I had fabricated. The other three I tried to design, so if you got a flat tire, you would not have to take the caliper off. However I decided to stick with the 40mm, 78mm, 51mm triangle. to do that the slots have to run parallel to the dropout.

Notice one bungle. The caliper could hit the top tab when push all the way forward. In fact to get it to work with the wheel all the way forward in a dropout, I had to file a contour giving the caliper about 1mm clearance. The caliper is not all the way forward in the slots, and I guess it doesn't need to be to clear.


Notice one bungle. The caliper could hit the top tab when push all the way forward. In fact to get it to work with the wheel all the way forward in a dropout, I had to file a contour giving the caliper about 1mm clearance. The caliper is not all the way forward in the slots, and I guess it doesn't need to be to clear.

Well nothing rubs, the brakes work, and nothing makes noise. . . . On to the next

3 comments:

dmar836 said...

Nice work! That's a lot of brass.

CurbDestroyer Chronicles said...

Brass . . . Yes just WEIGHT till it's done. Hopefull Saturday I'll be getting it ready for paint.

dmar836 said...

Good work! I've been brazing on my motorcycle project a lot more and really enjoy it. The filet brazing is a step above for sure.