Thursday 11 August 2011

Torque Arm

Last week I ordered some 12mm free machining grade stainless rod. Yesterday I took it into the mushroom shed and introduced it to Mr Lathe.

I now have a rear caliper torque arm.




Hopefully getting a rear sprocket at the Cheltenham Autojumble on Saturday. Once I've got that I just need a few stainless fasteners and some powder coating done and that's the roling chassis completed.

3 comments:

  1. Nice, although would it not have been easier to just use a piece of square bar and drill each end?

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  2. Not really, the rose joints compensate for the fact that the anchor point is not exactly in line with the caliper bracket and allows a small degree of adjustment which eliminates a problem with the clearance between the caliper bracket and the swing arm on full extension (caused by the non linear adjustment provided by the eccentric adjusters).

    Oh and I had them lying around and they look cool.

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  3. Fair enough, most torque arms have a double bend in as they're not in line but give no adjustment!

    Does look kewl though. :-)

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