while i was rereading the post about cool motor mount brackets (http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthr...Thread=212597&partnumber=&postmarker=) i got to thinking that there have just got to be hunnerts of cool brackets that have been made by hambers. would y'all mind to post pictures of them so that those of us who don't have as much creativity in us can get some ideas for use while building our rides? car stuff, bike stuff, shock mounts, light stands, generator brackets, etc. a while ago c9 showed us his alternator brackets, which i saved. the one with the tensioning rod just about pegged the cool meter for me. (if you want to see it go to: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=143938&Forum=All_Forums&Words=c9%20bracket&Match=And&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=143525&Search=true#Post143938) i'd love to be the one to start, but if i could make cool stuff i wouldn't have to ask to see yours.
There is nothing cool or difficult about this generator mount.(I am pleased with it though ) I'm showing it so others can see you can make decent stuff at home with out a CNC machine. It was hand cut with a torch from a piece of 3/16 plate, heated and bent in a vise, aerated with a hole saw and then ground and smoothed in a vise. I like it so much I may get it plated.
i bet that in the ten months since i originally posted this that someone has made something worthy of showing the rest of us. how 'bout it? these two are very cool and exactly the sort of thing i wanted to see. who's got more?
zodoff, on the multi-pix thing: the only way to do that is to host the pix somewhere else. and if you do that they will disappear from the hamb when they disappear from the other site. if you post the pix directly to the hamb (like you did here) we get to see them forever; or until ryan deletes them. ryan once told me that he doesn't delete pix though, so they should be here 'til the server crashes or there is a big hamb software update like happened a couple of years ago. i know hosting pix elsewhere saves bandwidth on the hamb, but i like the idea of tech pix like these being posted directly here. my $0.02...
Haha,my ugly welds will be visible here FOREVER... Ok,kool thanks atch! I guess Ill keep posting one at the time. Hosting stuff seems complicated. I like brackets better than computers.
here is one of my exhaust brackets the curved side got tigged to the muffler and the flat one bolts to the bottom of the frame Made with a drill and a file then polished on the bench grinder I love stainless cause I am useless at painting so a polish and you end up with a finished part
a drill and file simon? damn. that's dedication to put that kind of hand work into stainless. for those that don't know, there is probably two or three times as much work to make a part of stainless instead of mild steel, it's slow going.
cheers I tidied it up a bit more after this pic as the middle wasn't quite straight the hard part was of course making the other one the same here is a pic where it goes the main pipe has since been trimed near the black line and I dropped it off at the polisher after tigging the mufflers inside This piece is a little large for me to polish at home
Not ezzactly a bracket. I call it a splitter cuz the fuel line splits there. Done so changes to the intake system are easy. It doubles as a hose bracket and triples as a coil mount. You could retain the coil with a setscrew and that's probably the best way, but the coil is a snug fit in the bore and retained with a couple dabs of clear silicon. 11 years so far and the oil-filled (Jacobs) coil is still going strong. Far as the fuel line splitting bit goes, the hoses come in top and bottom and tie to an Earls #8 bulkhead fitting. Funny part about building this piece was that I didn't have the right size mill end cutter to recess the heads of the allen bolts. (Due to the curved surface a drill would have walked off center.) After I'd drilled the pilot hole in the first side and then discovered I didn't have the mill end cutter in the size I needed. I left the 'bracket' set up in the mill for a week and a half while I waited for the UPS guy to bring a new mill end cutter.
In the midst of the mess on the bench is an axle side Panhard bracket. It's made to duplicate the shape of the batwing and bolt to the side of it. Seems like it could create a problem like that, but I'm gauging it's potential success by the shock mount bolt welded to the 32's SuperBell tube axle. 41,000 miles and no problems there.
This pic shows the Panhard bracket mounted. It's made from 3/16" cold rolled and you'll have to look close to see it.
Here's a steering column drop mount. Note the string of holes 1" apart so you can move the steering column to one side or the other. Makes it very handy when you want just a small change in ergonomics. I did end up moving the column over 1" and simply swapping bolt holes beat heck out of cutting, grinding and welding. There are gussets each side of the bracket, but they're not installed yet.
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