{"id":12809,"date":"2014-07-31T12:28:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=12809"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:22:57","slug":"extending-a-cb360-brake-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2014\/07\/extending-a-cb360-brake-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending a CB360 brake stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not all the jobs needed to modify a motorcycle are really all that interesting and extending the CB360’s brake stay to accommodate the extended swing arm shows this. However, the prep and clamping that this took I think is a good example of how to work with something round. Maybe this will give you some ideas the next time you need to do something similiar.<\/p>\n

1. The brake stay and the donor one that was in the scrap bin with a matching OD.
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2. Made my cuts as clean and straight as possible then squared them up on the disc sander.
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3. Using the belt sander, I chamfered on all the mating edges and cleaned everything up for welding.
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4. Using a v-block to clamp up the first side to tack it in place. V-block are really helpful with lining up round pieces. I left a 1\/16″ gap between the pieces so that I could get the proper penetration with the weld.
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To tack up the other side I clamped down both flat ends to the table so that they’re on the same plane.
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Then using a piece of angle I clamped the joint so that everything lined up.
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5. Completed the welds and cleaned them up with a handle file. I find this to be the best way to make the joint look seamless.
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6. Finished and on the bike
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Not all the jobs needed to modify a motorcycle are really all that interesting and extending the CB360’s brake stay to accommodate the extended swing arm shows this. However, the prep and clamping that this took I think is a good example of how to work with something round. Maybe this will give you some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12814,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions\/12814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}