I printed this jig to clamp the interstage gears and keep my file square, then spent a couple hours remembering the 21st night of september to keep sane while I manually created 2 keyways.
The full assembly gets mounted to the swingarm. The mounting screws go in from 2 different directions because I’m crap at designing things and backed myself into a corner where the gearbox can only be assembled and mounted in one very specific and ass-backwards sequence because there’s no clearance for half the parts.
This whole process has been a ton of grinding and annoying manual fit-ups. I’m out of time this weekend, but just a little more messing around with chain clearance and I should be good to start throwing down retaining compound and meshing some gears. Final item on the to-do list is running lights
The sound is better than i was hoping for
But the tolerances turned out to be a liiiiiitle bit tighter than I could actually get away with IRL so there might be a little bit of “self-clearancing” for the first couple miles
That’s the tail lights setup, so the lighting system is pretty much done. The last major item is to mount all of the fixings onto the deck plate!
Unfortunately though, I just sliced my arm up pretty good at work today and the doctor says no heavy lifting for 2 weeks. So it looks like just 3D printer work for the next few days for me
I run a CNC plasma cutting table at work, and we keep all of the material for it in a vertical storage rack. I was trying to pull out a heavy Steel sheet, my grip slipped, and my arm jerked sideways into the edge of another piece of sheet metal in the rack.
It’s a relatively clean cut, about a quarter inch deep, and I’m pretty lucky that it didn’t hit anything important. There doesn’t seem to be any muscle / tendon / nerve issues with my hand.
I’m getting chills just thinking about that. That’s horrible. Hope you heal quick and well
