I'm wrapping up my senior year in college so i decided to take some cool classes. One of which being machine shop. For a final project we were supposed to make something that uses all of the tools we learned how to use.
Without telling my life story: I used two lathes, a machining press, a mig welder, a gravity band saw, and a hack saw. Everything is made of steel with the exception of the wheels. My buddy did the welding since that's something we were not taught. All in all, it turned out great. I painted it tonight, thus the crappy night photos. And most of all, the stand works. It's a little hard to pry up, but i might add some length to the leverage bar, or just use a pry bar. Anyway, on to pics.







Modified by rdblckSV650S at 7:05 PM 5/16/2007

 

haha that's awesome, did you get an A?

 

Time to sell some stands on the side!

 

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x2 if you can make one for the f4i, I will really consider on buying one hehe

 

Very nice . I like how you made it just like the Pitbull forward handle which I have and love:

 

Wanna make me one for my 748?

$$$

 

I wish my school had shop classes. i'd love to do this.

 

Very coo. Turned out nice.

 

Cool project

 

thanks guys. I originally told my teacher i was going to make a rear stand, but i wasn't very excited about a regular design, until i came upon pictures of pitbull's forward handle stand. I pretty much made my drawings based off their pictures. Everything esle involved taking measurements off my bike. I also measured some dimensions of my handy stand.
Sadly, i graduate in two weeks and will no longer have access to the shop and its tools. So i can't be making any more stands, or tank spacers, and speedo brackets, or tooth pick holders

 

Very nice job, I like it. Too bad you can't make more.

 

sick job.

 

Very nice, even better that you got some units for doing it Looks pretty clean too, I appreciate the craftmanship .

 

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lol

 

man, thats a tragedy

 

damn thats a nice job. now all you need is to make a front one.

 

I went back to the machine shop today to resolve this issue with the tough leverage. The inside of the pipe has a weld bead all the way down. It must be a product of how the pipe is manufactured. This meant that i couldn't just lathe a rod to slide down in there as it would catch on the weld bead. I ended up finding an aluminum rod that already fit inside, but caught of course. I used the milling press to cut a trench in to the rod to compensate for the weld bead. Then i lathed a little end piece the diameter of the pipe, and drilled a hole in that. Then drilled a hole in the rod and tapped it. Tada, it works. And now it's sooo much easier to leverage than it was before. I don't even know if i'll use my handy stand anymore because this is so much easier. Pictures of course:




So basically, you set the stand up, apply pressure downwards, and slide the rod out about 6 or 7 inches, or whatever, and then raise the rear off the ground. Once you get to the balancing point it's easy to slide the rod back in and rest the stand on the ground.

 

Did you find the yield strength of the bar and calculate the maximum shear stress in the welds that have martensite in them because of the flash heating? lol. looks sweet. good job

Hey, I'll make these if you want to buy them? Ill even get the powdercoated to match your bike. haha.

 

Yea i didn't do all of the fancy crap. I had my buddy weld it because he's good at it, and my teacher didn't show us how to weld. I didn't want to booger it up on my first attempt. Unfortunately my buddy fuse welded the bar to the rest of the stand, so i do worry about its strength.

 

lol i was just kidding. My mind is all on engineering right now. Mechanics of Materials and Manufacturing Processes final tomorrow at 9.

Seriously though. Ill start making these.

 

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Hey, I'll make these if you want to buy them? Ill even get the powdercoated to match your bike. haha. </TD></TR></TABLE>

omg you just gave me flashbacks to Materials Engineering AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hey, if you made these and sold them for like $90 you'd still be making profit and beating the competition.
I'd recommend buying wheels though, making them takes more time than they're worth.