Author Topic: I've been a naughty boy, been making stuff again ;) (Read 3804 times)

oldschoolace · « **on:** June 21, 2013, 04:01 PM »

First of all i'm sorry if anyone is offended, i cant imagine you would be but there you go. Twas all done for a bit of fun and cos i'm a tinker

So... a while back i stumble on this ad on the museum in a thread about rare parts

I was really intruiged by the concept and i wondered why i had never seen one. I looked around for a while hoping to buy one but drew a blank. There are only 2 magazine ads on the net for it and precious little mention so i councluded they probably never went into production and the challenge was set.

I looked into getting one machined but the quotes were pretty steep, what i needed was an old school machine shop with someone who could have a go at it in there lunch break or something but those kind of places seem thin on the ground these days so i decided to ask a waterjet cutting place i know if they could help.

I bought an off cut block of T6 ali, drew up a few simple cutting files and dropped it off with them to see what they could do.

I also got them to cut a few blanks (the piece above the block) for future ideas

The measurements were quite tricky and i had to reverse engineer the dimensions from the stem post and handlebar carriage in the ad which i could be certain of correct measurements. It still took a bit of heads scratching as the magazine ad pic is at an angle so forshortening had to be considered.
The length of the carriage was reverse engineered fron the dimensions of an odyssey v3 stem front and side wedges

The parts come out with a shot blasted face to them which isn't too hard to knock flat. I had to cut the round back profile by hand and file smooth. You can just make out the scribed mark in this pic

Next i bought one of those cheap ruption suntour style stems off the bay and carefully cut into the back of it to release the stem post. Luckily the pots mod bolt and washer were a perfect match to the ACS one

I drilled a 21mm hole in the base of the stem and press fitted it in with a big fook off vice the missus's dad gave me a few years ago. Then i fitted an ACS rotor on the shaft and marked for the hole for the cable adjuster. This was then drilled and tapped.

My measurements must have been half decent ac the bolt on the rotor just clears the handlebar carriage

A trip to the powder coaters and a few vinyls cut at a local firm and she was all but done

Then came the naughty bit, with rad down i thought i may be a bit of fun to bung it in the rotor bag and see what the reaction would be once we were all back together.

Sorry guys, hope i'm forgiven

Clint

NORTY40 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2013, 04:03 PM »

Quality

Nice work aswell

Retrodan72 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2013, 04:07 PM »

Nice one Clint, looks brilliant.

What a talented chap.

mattuknc · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2013, 04:08 PM »

Very smart. (Can see where odyssey got their idea from!)

GavinDavis · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2013, 04:20 PM »

That is awesome Clint! Nice work once again mate! What was the total price to make the stem?

Julian347 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2013, 04:28 PM »

Its great when people have a go at this sort of thing.

Love it

chubby · « **Reply #6 on:** June 21, 2013, 05:03 PM »

cnut had us all going with that.......
great work again.......

what you gonna sell em for

garran · « **Reply #7 on:** June 21, 2013, 05:13 PM »

that is absolutely unreal, never thought you could replicate something like that

Jaan · « **Reply #8 on:** June 21, 2013, 06:10 PM »

I did wonder why they'd make packaging for a prototype

Fantastic fabrication, when shall we PM requests?

dwain dibbly · « **Reply #9 on:** June 21, 2013, 06:26 PM »

cool so when are you doing a set of aerospeeds

kungfunky · « **Reply #10 on:** June 21, 2013, 06:53 PM »

Great skills indeed

What do the Museum boy's think to it ?

Jaymz · « **Reply #11 on:** June 21, 2013, 07:10 PM »

Superb clint, but how does it work?

Pooch · « **Reply #12 on:** June 21, 2013, 08:09 PM »

Can you make me a sst camand post.. Want to sell one to Adam

Great work

TORKER mick · « **Reply #13 on:** June 21, 2013, 08:22 PM »

nice one clint

oldschoolace · « **Reply #14 on:** June 21, 2013, 08:29 PM »

Cheers guys

Jaymz the wedge and "arch" section are nicked out of an odyssey v3 stem. The arch has a V shaped top like a house roof so as you tighten up the wedge bolt it is pushed down

Cost me about 80 notes all in Gav

BMX1973 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 21, 2013, 08:35 PM »

Does looks good.

oldschoolace · « **Reply #16 on:** June 21, 2013, 09:45 PM »

Quote from: kungfunky on June 21, 2013, 06:53 PM

Great skills indeed

What do the Museum boy's think to it ?

for the most part they all found it funny but i'm sure a few sour pussies will chime in with some sort of repop rant

monkian · « **Reply #17 on:** June 21, 2013, 10:35 PM »

Proper stitch up

I said it was cool, now I think it's even cooler...
Awesome skills

griff · « **Reply #18 on:** June 21, 2013, 10:49 PM »

You fooker Clint

AKGOFF · « **Reply #19 on:** June 21, 2013, 11:15 PM »

Quote from: Pooch on June 21, 2013, 08:09 PM

Can you make me a sst camand post.. Want to sell one to Adam

Great work

You need to learn how to spell it first you knob.

Very clever skills there Clint.

oldschoolace · « **Reply #20 on:** June 22, 2013, 10:58 AM »

Well this created a bit of a shit storm over on the museum

Intersting how you guys all get the funny side and quite a few of them dont

ED209 · « **Reply #21 on:** June 22, 2013, 11:14 AM »

Wicked bit of tinkering there Tinkerbell

probably better than an original... got a link to the discussion on the museum?

oldschoolace · « **Reply #22 on:** June 22, 2013, 11:20 AM »

Here you go

http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=522197

Really dont see what the problem is, i revealed the spoof the next day and i ant making money out of it

All good fun

Dannywhac · « **Reply #23 on:** June 22, 2013, 11:43 AM »

K'in ell - I'd forgotten what a serious business bmx is over at the Museum.

Good work though fella

DoubleD · « **Reply #24 on:** June 22, 2013, 11:57 AM »

The museum is a big joke

Awesome work done there mate

Author Topic: I've been a naughty boy, been making stuff again ;) (Read 3804 times)

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