little project

[atvnut22]

heres the deal, bought a set of renthal fat bars off a friend for $10 bucks, and didnt want to buy new clamps. i take cad/cam/cnc at school, and since i have a cool teacher, who likes riding, i asked if i could make a set of clamps. he said sure, so i began making a design on mastercam. i started with a 4in by 4in square block of aluminum. i have milled the hole, and shape, and started on the second clamp today. once i get both to the same point, i will then drill the bolt wholes, and cut the clamp in half. heres a picture of yesterday and todays work. i will update when their done, just thought i would share , kind of interesting i think.

[yellowzo3]

are you going to put little grooves or anything in the holes for the bars to reduce slipping? I haven't taken a set of bars off in forever so I don't even remember if companies put grooves in them lol... Anyway looks like its coming along good! nice job! DONT FORGET to post up finished pics! :D

[atvnut22]

i havent decided yet, i guess i will wait and see if the bars are going to want to slip once i am done. im pretty proud of yself, i set up all the toolpaths and offsets and the program. this is the first one that i have dne by myself, and actually cut, besides a few squares and circles we cut on wax. i forgot to mention that the i also added in about a 3/4 inch riser. depending on how i like the height, i may make spacers to.

[KFX450Rrider490]

thats neat our school just got this engineering program thats absolutly awsome its not anything like cad i think its called bim its a top of the line program that would allow you to draw every part on a quad bike ect. then put them together to create the object then animate it so you can show someone step by step how to put it together it its just wild

and like said above update us on the final product it looks sweet
and keep up the good work

[slightlybent47]

Very nice. I took shop in school and learned a lot. We didn't have cnc machines back then. I would have had to do it on a hand mill.

Try to make them so you can change the height. Make them adjustable.
Make a dash to go with it.
Good work.

[jcs003]

i am a mechanical engineer. i also went to school for machining and CNC. it really helps because i work in research & development so i can produce my own prototypes. it is fun too because i have also made a few parts of my own.

also, you should of made them out of steel and had them chromed or powdercoated. aluminum bar clamps will not hold up. anyways, good work and good luck in your career.

[stuntin andy]

dude if those work can you sell me a pair =D like risers incept diffrent.

[stuntin andy]

after replying to this i found these!!! this is a sweet idea



http://www.roxspeedfx.com/cgi-bin/cart/showitems.cgi?subcat_id=256

[born2ride14]

Most handle bars have the gnurls built in. I think the aluminum might be soft enough if you torque them down a little the gnurls will in-print into the aluminum. I think if they are torqued enough you will be fine

[atvnut22]

heres an uptdate. havent got to work on them much, due to having a pep rally one day, and college fair thing the next. but so far i have gottent he other clamp cut out, the holes drilled, and cut. tomorrow i am going to tap the holes, and redrill the top part so my bolt will fit through, and possibly counterbore it so the head of the bolt can sit flush.

also, that red is the dykem i used to mark the center of the whole.

[atvnut22]

i got them finished up today, and mounted. i really like them, i think they are the stock bend off the ktms. now im just waiting on my bar pad and grips to get here, and ill call it done. also have to find a new place to mount my killswitch

[stuntin andy]

nice dude thats awsome!!

[atvnut22]

thanks man, heres a pic from the front. i worked pretty hard on these things. those nuts under the clamps are my temporary spacers till i make a set on the lathe tomorrow

[ECHILD]

it would look even better if you counter sink the bolts.looks great now tho...good work man

[400exrider707]

If you have the capability, I'd make a one piece top clamp. Definitely stronger that way. You can also make the one piece top clamp that has the killswitch holder built in, those are awesome!

Good job either way! Making your own stuff like this usually takes a good amount of time, but is SO worth it in the end.

[atvnut22]

i would have counter sunk the holes, and was goin to, but i put a bar pad on it, so that just extra work imo.

i thought about the one peice top clam, but decided it would be quicker and easier to make it this way. today my pad and grips came, and i started on a key holder, not sure where ill put that.

[400exrider707]

This is what I was thinking, but this one is even simpler... not machined completely...

check this out, maybe this can give you an idea of how to mount your kill switch?

http://www.houser-racing.com/images/010707hr.jpg

[CNC_guy]

Cool. I kinda like CNC work.;)

[atvnut22]

Originally posted by CNC_guy
Cool. I kinda like CNC work.;)

i love it, ive taken 2 years of it so far, and next year i will have 5 periods. where would you suggest to go to college for machining. i know occ in owensboro just got a new machine lab; im very interested in their classes.

[honda400ex2003]

cool work and glad to hear you are having fun making stuff in cad. How do you like master cam compared to say solid works or nx5 or inventor if you have used any of them. I like inventor and solidworks best for the 3-d stuff. Steve

[atvnut22]

i like mastercam alot, all our computers have the x-3 version, but an older computer have the original, with black screen and green line, and i find it easier to do 3-d parts on. i have tried a sample that was sent to the school, cant remember who made it,but it was very confusing to me.

[honda400ex2003]

i havent used mastercam but i have used SDS2, solidworks, NX5 as of today, inventor, autocad, and a few other small ones. I like solid works the best and have a student edition of it on my laptop, SDS2 is really awesome for stuctural steel stuctures and other buildings, inventor is the predecor of solidworks, auto cad is not great but gets the 2-d stuff done easy enough, NX5 i am not a fan of from the 2 hours i spent using it today at school. MTU uses it to draw parts for the mills and the lathes so i have to do my drawing for my adaptor in it at school. just my .02 on it though. steve

[atvnut22]

i really like working will mills, much better than lathes, though i really want to try out our cnc lathe, lol. we have a nice set up in our shop. we have 9 manual lathes, 5 manual mills, 2 cnc mills without a self adjusting head( will not go up and down without manually doing so), a fully automated cnc mill and a cnc lathe. i would really like to have a proffesion of maching, possibly like motor and head work, or drafting and design kind of deal.

[250x_kyle]

it would look a little cleaner if you counter bored the holes for the machine screws. but if the bar pad covers it it doesnt matter. good work.

[standardryder]

Nice work. Ive been doing cad/milling for the past 9 years, started in autocad all through highschool now I program and run my own machines at work, I use mastercam X-4 with all the bells and whistles. Good thing is I have 2 machines and 80% of the time only ones being used:devil: so you know the other is making "government" work. I've made wave rotors, propeg mounts, powermadd mounts, "flexx" type bars and a bunch of other little things. keep at it< its definitely a good field.
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all pc'd and mounted
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snowboard stomp pad
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[250x_kyle]

that currently what im in college for. nice work. start producing and saleing ur own flex type bars lol.

[beastlywarrior]

thats cool im goin to school for M.E. right now i love using solidworks

[honda300EXtreme]

nice work on the riser/clamps.

its definatley worth it making your own parts. not bad either having your school pick up the cost :p

it really is an art using a lathe or a mill or a cnc machine

in high school we made riffle rests, and it really was neat making them.



for all you guys who use master cam and auto cad, my hat goes off to you, because that damn stuff confused the hell outta me..

[atvnut22]

Originally posted by honda300EXtreme
nice work on the riser/clamps.

its definatley worth it making your own parts. not bad either having your school pick up the cost :p

it really is an art using a lathe or a mill or a cnc machine

in high school we made riffle rests, and it really was neat making them.



for all you guys who use master cam and auto cad, my hat goes off to you, because that damn stuff confused the hell outta me..

it comes natural to me, im really good at math, and am naturally smart. i feel pretty lucky,ive maintained a 4.0 since the 7th grade, and have brought probably 2 books home a year; couldnt tell you last time i studied for something. our teacher gave us 3 3d assignments to do for our final, i had to have them done in a week. i had mine completed and right before class was over.

[honda300EXtreme]

the thing that killed me was setting up the tool paths,

i would usually wait for the smarter of the kids to finish, then i simply would open there file and save it to my name and hit the print button and turn my papers in..

but i really did like running the lathe. boring and machining to size and threading, comes second nature once you get the hang of things.


i know i must sound like an idiot to some of you guys. but thank god im not a machinist. hahah..

but believe it or not i wasnt the slowest in my class

scary aint it

[atvnut22]

you have no idea, some of the kids in our class are so dumb. we had been in the cad/cam/cnc class for a semester right, and had been working with mastercam since the 3rd week. on our final i actually had a kid ask me how to make a line on the program.:eek: its kinda awesome being the best in our class at it, cause when we finish our program, we have to go into the shop, im usually their by myself for a day or 2. times like that is when i do projects like this'n.:D

[honda300EXtreme]

yea, education for something usefull comes in handy.

well if you get bored i could use a set of rims for the old ford

something like a set MT classic locks would work.

ill pm you the specs

thanks hahaha

[atvnut22]

Originally posted by honda300EXtreme
yea, education for something usefull comes in handy.

well if you get bored i could use a set of rims for the old ford

something like a set MT classic locks would work.

ill pm you the specs

thanks hahaha

hear that standardryder, he talking to ya


:p