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HEre is one of the eclipse clutches that my friend Delmar made up for me. They are beautiful. He did most of the machine work, there were some other parts that were made by my other friends, and I made some stuff as well. It was a huge group effort to get it done and I feel great that my team of friends and I pulled it off. There are over 100 parts in this set up and they all have to work with each other!


bits and pieces! I had four sets of plates kevlar coated for the cannonball race. My friend Bill Nugent and I are running them in our sears. Let me know if you need a set!



clutch drum is made out of 8620 and case hardened!




installed! I still have to make my pedal arm bolts, but couldn't resist a quick mock up to see the pedals on my bike!!!!! Things are getting exciting! I got a bunch of plating in the mail today, will post later

post number 111

This morning Ray helped me tack the skirt onto my sears outer primary. I have been putting this job off for months because it intimidated me. I am very happy with how it worked out and I am glad that I took the time to come up with a good game plan on how to do it. I have a total of 18 or 20 hours in this cover and I still have to trim it and make two mounting brackets, as well as metal finish it! What a bunch of work, but every step is one step closer to the finished product!


Pretty good stuff. Everything in this picture is calculated and precise!



Does anybody know what these two little guys are for? The first correct answer gets a cookie!




I usually only post pictures of successful parts, most of the time though, I have to scrap a couple pieces before I come up with something use able, here are a couple of junk clutch lever tension straps. I can't believe how much I struggled on this dinky little part.





Here is the finished piece installed on the lever. You can also see the top motor mounts that I made yesterday as well. I still have to silver solder the knob onto the clutch lever

post number 109

Here is a neat pic of machining the decompression/mag advance casting that goes on the frame. The seat t casting was cast in a similar fashion, but the tube that it is on is curved, so I had to drill and bore it out on the mill. This piece went a lot easier though since the tube it was on was straight.


Here is the tubing that I used for my bottom tank arrows.



Here is the back one prior to welding.




Ta Da! all finished up.





I also finished up my clutch lever stud and cap. This is a clean deal! I also roughed in my exhaust, finish ground my seat post and got a spare motor from ohio. Pics will be posted shortly

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Check out the radiused end and the nice fit on the pinch bolt!



Here is the finished piece. I still have to make the actual bolts and silver solder the starting disc onto the pedal shaft, but for the most part it is finished!

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My daddy is helping me out today and machining up the triple tree castings. Before we could machine them we had to straighten out the diving boards. I had problems with these breaking off in the wax stage of casting, so I asked the foundry to set them up in the right spot before they cast them. Everyone of them was crooked and most of them have to be cut off and re welded back onto the casting which is a lot of work, but it kind of fitsthe theme of this whole project lol


While my dad was working on castings I was working on my fixture for brazing the fork together. Here is the top clamp for the fixture. I spent most of the morning on the phone getting measurements from all over the country.



We machined the bottom tabs down to .315 just like the originals! The bar between the two pieces is the bottom part of my fixture. Lots of work and ciphering