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I am in the process of making a prototype set of forward controls, bu cannot decide on how to mount the footpeg clevis on the shaft. The clevis I am using is designed to attach with a 3/8" bolt threaded into the back of it, so I need a 3/8" stud to mount it. I cannot decide if I want to turn down the shaft, and thread it like in the top drawing, or drill and tap the shaft, and use a threaded stud (cut off bolt) like in the bottom drawing. The turned down, and threaded shaft would be more professional, and only have one point of threaded connection, but if it were ever damaged the only way to repair it would be to cut it off, and drill and tap it for the stud like in the bottom drawing. However if I did it like in the bottom drawing, it would be able to be removed, and replaced if it were damaged.

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I chose the second method, but probably more out of necessity than anything else. I turned the shaft from aluminum, and it was much easier to just drill it out and tap threads into it afterwards. As you can see by how I desigend my controls, the aluminum shaft inside the grenade body needed to be threaded on each end.
Look about halfway down:



http://www.clubchopper.com/forums/chopper-builders-log/88066-between-iraq-hard-place-infidel-chopper-6.html

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Well thanks. Now I have to read the whole build thread. Have you checked out Shinys Water Buffalo thread? http://honda-cb750-s.456789.n3.nabble.com/The-Water-Buffalo-Seemingly-never-ending-cafe-project-td3212994.html#a3212995

Being threaded on both ends is just what I am doing. However nothing as cool as stun grenades.
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Life is not about the number of breaths, you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
No fire? No explosions? So whats the point of your story?
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
We all got problems. Ksharp
I like vintage bikes because they take me away from the clutter of technology that I work with everyday and back to a simpler time of mechanical elegance and simplicity.. "ninadm"
Darkwing Duck: The worst part of public transportation is the Public.
"That is awesome shit there" Re-Run
"Fear nothing, attack everything" Eric Berry
" Oh, you read that on the internet? Clearly it IS a massive problem. Of course it CAN’t be normal operation."

1976 CB 750-A X 2
1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
1981 CB 750
1966 Kawasaki SG 250
1981 KZ 750 LTD
1973 CB 350
1979 CM 185 Twinstar
1982 Honda XL 80
South of Eden (Kansas City MO)
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As a matter of fact I just saw that thread yesterday or the day before for the first time. It must have been dormant for a while. Shame he sold it.  Bigger shame he didn't sell it to me...  :)
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I told him not to, but did he listen? Noooooo.
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Life is not about the number of breaths, you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
No fire? No explosions? So whats the point of your story?
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
We all got problems. Ksharp
I like vintage bikes because they take me away from the clutter of technology that I work with everyday and back to a simpler time of mechanical elegance and simplicity.. "ninadm"
Darkwing Duck: The worst part of public transportation is the Public.
"That is awesome shit there" Re-Run
"Fear nothing, attack everything" Eric Berry
" Oh, you read that on the internet? Clearly it IS a massive problem. Of course it CAN’t be normal operation."

1976 CB 750-A X 2
1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
1981 CB 750
1966 Kawasaki SG 250
1981 KZ 750 LTD
1973 CB 350
1979 CM 185 Twinstar
1982 Honda XL 80
South of Eden (Kansas City MO)
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The Water Buffalo thread kinda got outta hand.

I like the second method,too. Once installed, should look the same. Being serviceable in the future is a great feature to have.
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I like the 2nd. if you hit something or laydown the bike its better to break a bolt than the controller.
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