- Update 12/15/2001 -
Here are two pictures of my workshop in the basement. (The Hondas are in the Garage) From left to right you can see the grinding wheel, the table saw, the drill press, and then the compound mitre saw.
Construction beings!
In the Picture above you can see the first cut about to be made to the Chrome
Moly bar, this cut is made to first 6' bar 1" diameter that was ordered.
Above is the completed cut.
The column was cut a little long intentionally, so here I am cutting it to a length closer to the inteded length of 9"
Here is the completed bar, which will be the stem for the steering column, it is a little over 9" in length. (intentionally) You can see the sketch for the assembly on the paper behind it.
This is the first cut made to the 1" Inner Diameter Chrome Moly bar, this cut is made to even off the end of the bar so I have a clean reference to measure from.
After the cut is made, the measurements are placed to drill the holes across the diameter. I built some brackets to help guide a clean drill through the diameter of a cylinder. The bolts on either side of the bracket are tightened more or less evenly, pushing the tube toward the center, where a guide hole was already drilled. I can constently and with little effort get holes drilled very close (probably < 1/32") to the diameter of the tube.
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The two holes are drilled 90 degrees out of phase through the diameter of the tube, and the collar is measured and ready to be cut.
The collar has been cut and placed on the steering tube column, which was then drilled. The collar is seen here bolted to the column with the wood brackets still in place.
The second collar was measured and drilled, and is just about to be cut here.
The final steering column with the pair of axial collars over the column, each one bolted twice across the diamter. This is also placed over a sketch of the entire assembly.
- Matus