Sunday 14 November 2010

Making the rear dropouts

First thing is to use the cardboard templates to mark onto the steel I'm going to make the dropouts from. like so:

The marker is rough but when being cut it is marked out square and cut square to so both pieces match. Once the two pieces are cut they should look like this:
Note the gap for the caliper. To make sure this is right line up the caliper and keep filing until it fits to ensure a nice fit with no scraping or altering the caliper height so that it grasps most of the disc and flats round the disc easily and effectively:

Don't worry about the peach paint or rusty calipers as this will all be sanded down and resprayed when completed. It also helps to stops cuts if you file all corners down as well as you can like i have.
Next is the making of the long forks and dropouts for the front to mount the caliper and wheel to the forks.

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