and this is my shop welcome oh I have a new sign I am a fussy frame builder I've built
bicycle frames I've built motorcycle frames and what I have behind me is an Aramaki motorcycle
frame I really like these friends I used to race one that some years ago and I had some success in
2001 I built a couple frames and for some reason I built the second one I don't really know why I
kind of explain that but this is the stair frame because the bike it got stolen in 2005 and lots
of people have emailed me say I think I found your bike you know this hope and expectation
but it's never turned up so I decided that I'm gonna recreate the aramaki races that I used
to have back then and this is the bike you can see that it's a spine frame that means there's
one tube which connects the head tube with everything else big spine right at chromoly
tube and it's not finished yet it's very close that you can see here it's not welded I have
to put the shock mounts on and our project today is to build some foot pegs or a foot
peg I have a foot peg and I have one but I need two so this is a good little job for today we're
gonna make the foot peg out of a piece of inch and 1/8 6061 aluminum time to go to the lathe
in this foot peg a project we have several stages the first step is to drill the holes
the second step is to turn down the Odede and you can see how there's a little step here so
we leave the step and then after the OD is turned down this gets knurled that's a special tool I'll
show you first job is to face the end make that flat I use a center drill first I know it has a
hole in there but I don't know if the hole is centered it might be wandering a little bit so
so I need to drill a hole and I want to know how far to drill the hole so I extend the drill past
the end of the piece and make a mark there so when this mark goes up to the end there I'm far enough
on the foot peg you can see how there's a radius as at the end of the hall so
I'm going to try and make that radius using a scraper or a deburring tool
looks okay I'm just eyeballing that size there and that looks pretty good
and then I need to make him up down here so the metal here is it Jenna Nate and the
final OD is is 7/8 of an inch so I have to take off an eighth of an inch which is 125
9:50 so it's got to go down to 875 got a little bit more to take home
what I'm going to do now is I'm going to use the tool I'm gonna make a little little bit
of a radius here on the inside and on the outside you see how this is
sharp I'm gonna use the tool and make it a little bit rounded then I'll use a file
so that's another link tool I'm going to use the course wheels
goes to and there's a fine one and there's medium I want course
so I'm gonna start narrowing all right about the I'll put a little bit of oil on the rollers
that looks okay and does it match I think it's pretty close okay what I'm doing now
is I have to take off all of this and I can do the whole thing in the mail but it's going
to be a lot faster if I take a hacksaw and I make a cut leave enough on for the mill and
then finish up in the mill so I'm using this little drill press vise here and it's gonna
hold it because if I start just holding it by hand it can it can twist if I hold it in the
vise it's not going to twist and then I want to just kind of make a mark where I want to
cut it but leave extra can you see how I've left some extra you know I'll probably cut
on on this side of the felt there not just to give me a little bit of extra insurance though
gonna bolt that onto there I'll put a dial indicator on this face and I'm gonna I'm
going to move the vise until it's zero all along we're being way too fussy it's just the foot peg
but it's to show you how the process works if a customer came in and once said I want a foot
peg exactly like this that's the process what the straightedge is telling me is that these
two faces are vertical good so what I'll do is I'll put a little bit of pressure on there
well zero this so what I'll do now is I'm going to move up okay see it moving so when it goes
clockwise it means that it's coming towards the dial I have to move the vise this way
so now it's only out five down let's just see how close we can make it
how's that nice okay so now if you want to be really fussy you lock it down and then
you test it once more because sometimes when you clamp things down things move one though
that's okay for flipping okay this is the envelope gonna use it's a five eight ten
bill it's full flute it's carbide it's got some weight to it so what I've got here is a 5/8 rod
basically the same size and I'm gonna nestle this right into that radius there and send it
we'll call it so I can move it in there we go I can feel that that's basically in the
radius of the foot peg so up here now I'm gonna zero the X and I'm going to zero the
Y so when I change the tool I put in the end though and they'll wear the head for
it looks ok it just needs a little bit of a cleanup takeoff the burrows around
the corners so what I need to do see here I got to put a radius on here and then you
see how it sticks out on the sides and it doesn't stick out here I also have
to file off those lumps on either side so a little bit of hand filing
so I think we're looking pretty good they look like the same length so what we have to do now
is to cut this off and then to face the end and then we're done up at this bandsaw since 1988
it just keeps on working so I'm holding on the knurl now so I don't want to hold it too tight
and that's it I now have one pair of Aramaki foot pegs thank you very
much for watching this video hope to see you again