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Sagehawk
| Posted on Monday, June 08, 2015 - 11:27 pm: |
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Went to the coppertop icehouse in lamarque, tx yesterday to drink a coupla beers n just look around, BUT: I spent my money at 4th booth in. Doggonit. Stoked as i have been, I have been wanting to machine a set of these but never got around to it. Haven't had a good swap meet in our area in a long time n thought I would take this on in. Paid off big time. Wife gave me that look when I asked if she had 5 bucks. She pulled a twenty out and I told her that would do. Hah! We got home around 6Pm. Biatch then wanted to mow and weed eat yard with 2 hours of daylight left. Game four of kelly cup playoffs on at 6:05. I still managed to keep up with wifi at house and phone. My stingrays lost and are going to game 5 tomorrow night. with that , I'm still stressed!
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Buewulf
| Posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2015 - 02:26 pm: |
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Sagehawk, I can't tell what that is? |
Sagehawk
| Posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2015 - 06:28 pm: |
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Buewulf, that is a bonafide set of kent moore factory tooling , a complete set of torque plates. They will take shovelhead, iron head sporster, evo big twin , evo sporster and im assuming that buell xb 12 cylinders as well. Im not sure of xb9 as i dont know what the spigot size and bolt circle are for those cyllinders. So, any badwebbers in houston area need to do cylinder work, we are so covered! Sorry for small picture, but either too big or to small. Cant never get it just right. |
Buewulf
| Posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2015 - 06:38 pm: |
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A torque plate is the same thing as a honing plate, correct?. Man! Great find! |
Tootal
| Posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2015 - 07:27 pm: |
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For honing and boring. I made a double hole torque plate for my local engine builder. Makes it a lot quicker to bore and hone both cylinders with one set up. The only way to properly do the job. |
Sagehawk
| Posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2015 - 10:39 pm: |
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Tootal: I feel lucky to have this set. just no time at shop I am at to tie a machine up to make a set. paid 75.00 for this set. enough plates for two cylinders to work with at same time. Its good for me. When wife and I were at the canton, tx first Monday sale, there was a guy that was reselling estate goods. He didn't want to haul a rowe crankshaft truing stand around anymore and he certainly did not know what it was. His boy had said earlier 160.00 for it. when we went back, guy asked if I was one asking about it. said yes. He said he'd take 40.00 bucks for it. I asked the wife to pay the man. Took both of us to haul that thing to the car. HEAVY! I have two 19 year old bikes and have never had the crank out of either bike. but I got one. Hmmmm. Silly, maybe but you can't turn your back on a deal like that. what I haven't worked on yet is a 1947 south bend 9 x 48 lathe that I have wound up with. Someday,, maybe. last question, from the description I've given above, these plates will work on xb12 cylinders, correct? How bout the xb9 cylinders? |
Brother_in_buells
| Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 08:03 am: |
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Good catch with those tools! And 12 and 9 have the same cylinders and bore. Only pistons and crank is different. |
Zac4mac
| Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 10:07 pm: |
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Sage - Can't imagine they work for Shovelheads, bolt pattern is way different. You don't want torque plates anyway for a Shovel. Shovelhead cylinders bolt to the case on the bottom and the head at the top. No compressive forces... All Evo and later NEED them. Z <edit> Ironhead Sportys are the same as shovels here, dunno if the holes are the same but they don't need TPs either. <<edit>> Don't Mess with Texas (Message edited by zac4mac on June 10, 2015) |
Sagehawk
| Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 01:01 pm: |
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These plates are so full of holes that they resemble chunks of cheese. Different bolt circles, different socket head bolt lengths for different style engines. They are etched with sh, evo, etc at holes that are for dowels so you dont have to remove those.. i havent taken time to read directions cuz of stanley and kellycup playoffs going on. Wife getting tired of hockey slowly but surely. Ill try to get a better close up pix of a set so yall can see how these things are laid out. |
Phelan
| Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 02:25 pm: |
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I would imagine using these for a Shovel or Iron, you wouldn't torque the bolts, but rather just get them tight enough to use them as a jig when honing. This would also prevent the honing tank's vise from putting improper torque down on the cylinders, as the torque plate bolts would be resisting the torque from the tank bolts. Edit- actually that can't be the case if the holes are through-holes on one side, as the tank vise would still be adding torque to the cylinder. (Message edited by phelan on June 11, 2015) |
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