General Tech What did you work on Today?

Corban_White

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Location
Payson, AZ
Installed a kickstand on my son's KTM 125sx. We had a kickstand in my parts stash, sourced a bracket from a 2004 EXC and made a mount from some steel. Welded it on and drilled a hole for the spring. Voila! It works great. No more finding a tree or something to lean the bike on.

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JeeperG

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Location
Riverdale
That is going to be so much fun. I like the valve covers.
Hopefully take it for a shakedown soon?

Wait there's more, back panel in, seat belts bolted up, tossed one of the seats down just to see. Having trouble with the added leather and a seam on the pleating interfering with the window crank handle escutcheon and dropping the pin in the handle.
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moab_cj5

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About a month ago one of my double pie irons lost the pin on the hinge. Not wanting to throw it away, I remembered @cruiseroutfit telling me he had welded a new pin onto one of his cast iron pie irons.

After grinding and cleaning the area for the new pin, I pre-heated it with a propane torch before welding a new steel rod in for the hinge.

I have no idea how to tell if I got good penetration, and the welds are ugly, but fixed is fixed. If it breaks again I'm out a few minutes of time. If it holds, I get to keep using a well seasoned pie iron.

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Ant Anstead of Dirtbikes
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Broken cast/ chromed bracket in a doctor's table. Not available anymore; this stuff is from the early 70's.
For a huge rush job it came out pretty strong and not too terribly ugly.
I've had more success with welding this cast then chromed stuff by grinding off the chrome, beveling then preheating and welding with flux core than any other method. (My theory is the flux core burns a bit hotter and is less sensitive to the impurities in the cast.)
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