Member postings for Tony sacc

Come to think of it, that's what I'll do, I'll add text under albums from now on, rather than post under the forum.  That should make all of you happy.

Edited By Tony sacc on 23/08/2023 23:13:26

Edited By Tony sacc on 23/08/2023 23:23:51

There is no option of adding text in the albums. I'd be renewing your optical prescriptions if I were you. There may be a lot of pics, but there is also some text describing what the pics show between the pics and other text saying why the pics were uploaded.

I built my bike without a single drawing, plan or sketch and I know most people like myself do the same, and yet you keep harping on about Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Yamaha, et al. They are commercial enterprises, I am not!

I made dozens and dozens of mods for my TX650, hardly anything on the bike has not been modified, not a single plan, sketch or drawing. And whether you believe it or not, I am not alone, most custom bike builders are the same.

People like myself who build bikes and other things in their backyard workshops are not commercial entities.

Oh, Yamaha definitely do, however, I'm hardly a commercial motorcycle manufacturer, just a backyard maker of stuff.  I don't claim to know everything, nor do I claim to even be good at what I do, but I get by.

Whether you agree with my methodology or not, it's how I build all this stuff, not a pencil or piece of paper in sight.  Oops, I did tell a little fib:  The two electrical harnesses I made were done from diagrams I drew, very hard to remember so many wires, so many colours.  And I did make a hall effect ignition system from plans I downloaded from the Webb - electronics is not my strong suite.  But I never used it, rather, I built a dual lobe points cam and points backing plate and converted the bike to a single points setup in lieu of twin points.

The rest of the stuff I designed and built live in my head.  Just a small selection, very little Yamaha left on this bike.

Edited By Tony sacc on 22/08/2023 00:50:38

I agree, I have no idea how to write Chinese,not even improperly, that's probably because I'm not Chinese. Just some characters I pulled off the internet.

You need a drawing to build a bike? I don't know anybody who does that. I guess it's down to visualising what you're after, and dare I say it - imagination!

Thank you!

BTW, I'm not Bl@@dy wonderful at all, just ask the members of this group.  However, I do have imagination and can think for myself.

Edited By Tony sacc on 20/08/2023 23:36:19

I think that people who have to be taught everything are lacking imagination and the ability to think for themselves. . If you have to be taught how to do everything, you're just repeating other's mistakes,you'll never learn and you'll never be better than those you learnt from. So, think for yourself, dare to be better yourself. I've spent a lifetime fixing tradesmen's stuff ups.

Same goes for those who work from plans,you're just copying someone else's work, think for yourself, design something yourself, don't cheat!.

I'm sure you'll all hate this, sorry no apologies!

The white/ Grey one I built has two chains and a midpoint cassette. I modified a five speed cassette to add four ranges to compenatefor the 20" rear wheel, and to,raise the gearing. It has a modified front derailleur to swap cogs. Nevertheless the chain runs, particularly the rear run are still longer than normal bikes.

Well, no interest here in classic bikes so, I shall depart.

Edited By Tony sacc on 19/08/2023 23:21:08

This isn't the only forum that uploads photos upside down and so,on. A few will orient photos sideways if the picture format is portrait, others will do so if the format is panorama..

This isn't the only forum that uploads photos upside down and so,on. A few will orient photos sideways if the picture format is portrait, others will do so if the format is panorama..

For this mod I had to modify the right side engine cover by removing a blanking plug at the front and drilling and tapping 40mm down the oil galley leading to the pump. A little problematic as the oil galley is at an odd angle to the engine cover on three axis.

The XS650 has two oil filters, one in the sump and one in the right side engine cover. Filters is a bit of a misnomer, rather than filters they are strainers, hence the conversion to a better filtering medium.

Cooler filter number 2. 

This is the second one of these I made, the first one worked fine, but I didn't like it, the spin on mount looked a bit 'slabish'; one of the mounting screws was a bit hard to get to and the hoses were a bit of a jumble 

This time around, I routed the inlet hose to the side of  the spin on mount, so the hose is out of site.  The engine mounts have a protusion at the front to take the cooler plate and the engine mounts protrude further back toward the engine..

A number of parts I made for the first iteration remain:  the original filter housing cover plate I spun up for the lright engine cover, the stainless barbs and the cooler itself.

I first spun up a new spin on filter base, rounding off the edges  and leaving a concol tower on tower on top in which to fix the outlet inlet barb.  The inlet barb is a pressd in brass fitting on the side of the spin on mount.

The engine mounts have a protusion at front on which to mount the cooler mounting plate.

The cooler mounting plate is now just a flat piece of 3mm plate into which I inserted four thicker gromets.  I also spun up four stainless T nuts to ensert into the gromets to prevent them from being squished too much.

The inlet plate on the right engine cover was a carry over from the first build.  Rather than just screw an angled barb into the original filter cover plate, I spun up a new plate with a raised centre into which I pressed an 11mm barb. 

Edited By Tony sacc on 19/08/2023 00:48:25

Blah, blah, blah.

Edited By Tony sacc on 18/08/2023 23:59:06

I normally sharpen drills by hand/eye, but I have used this on occasion to good effect. It's particularly good for sharpening drills when you require an accurately sized hole without resorting to a reamer. When sharpening by hand, no matter how good you think you are, there will always be some discrepancy in the length of the cutting shoulders, so the hole it drills will be equal to twice the length of the longest shoulder, this isn't normally a problem with jigs.

I made the main body from 25mm square stock, machined a V on one side and cut a slot in the bottom of the V. There's a hole through miiddle which contains a 6mm threaded rod. riding on the threaded rod is a nut to which I welded a fin the fin pokes through the slot into the V. The end of the threaded rod has a knurled adjusting knob and a knurled locking nut.

I vaguely remember including an advance rod backlash adjuster, but can't remember how I did it.

On top of the main body is a U shaped bracket with a clamping screw, the clamping screw acts on an H plate which slides up and down inside the U shaped bracket, that clamps the drill bit in place and the shark fin nut acts on the back of the drill bit thus advancing it. At the front there is a tapped hole for attaching an indexing pointer but I've never used it.

The main body is attached to a 6mm plate which has a 12mm guide plate fastened underneath. The angle is set at 118 degrees and is not adjustable.

The jig is useless by itself, so I made a table with a 12mm slot across the middle in which the guide plate runs. So to use, clamp the drill in place and slide the jig across the table, thus grinding a facet. To advance the drill, turn the knob and lock it off with the locking nut, when one side is done, turn the drill over 180 degrees using the indexing pointer and repeat.

Cutting angle and relief angle are adjustable by angling the table. I do have marks on the table for this, but they are useless as the wheel gets smaller with use, making the marks redundant.

Probably over complicated in design, but it is simple to use and it works well. You can grind the web thinner at the tip with a diamond wheel, but I've never found it necessary as a conically sharpened drill has more of a chisel point that a facet sharpened drill has.

Now before you feel moved to point out one shoulder of the drill looks longer than the other, take a look at the angle of the drill to the camera, nuff said?

I made a wooden box for it and, in Chinese script, wrote 'drill sharpening jig' on top. Just to give it a bit of cred, we all know the best tools come from China, right?

BTW, this jig positions the bit so you can grind facets, a cutting facet and a relief facet.

They're right side up on my camera and on my computer where I downloaded, them. As soon as 8.uploato the four, a couple went upside down. Pewter gremlins!

Edited By Tony sacc on 18/08/2023 11:11:34

Its just my attempt at Chinglish. At least it doesn't actually say F off.  I passed it by a Chinese girl who spoke Cantonese, she didn't know, said it was maybe something like drill sharpener.  So apparently event the Chinese can't speak Chinese, Cantonese or Mandarin.  Maybe,the Chinese are like the Malays, and have two versions of their language, one spoken by the well educated, the other spoken by market people.

Edited By Tony sacc on 18/08/2023 04:13:09

There is something seriously wrong with the picture uploading on this forum. It refuses to allow pictures in sequential order, loads some sideways, and yet others upside down???