| Author | Message | ||
     Buellgler |
anyone have any idea where I can get some belt guards that aren't carbon fiber or acrylic? something that looks good and is actually functional? thanks in advance! | ||
| Oldog |
there is someone that was making them from stainless on E-bay | ||
| Littlebuggles |
You mean besides the stock stuff? I have my take off hugger and lower guard, you are welcome to them. -Mike | ||
| Koz5150 |
I designed the piece that was being sold on Ebay, it is a friend of mine who is producing them. | ||
| Denfromphilly |
Forgive me if I am wrong but a lot of the pieces on Ebay have a pic of a stainless guard but the text says that you will get a belt guard that is not as shown and is painted. I want shiny stainless ones to go with my sprocket cover! Den 99X1 | ||
| Lemonchili_x1 |
These are some guards I made out of some perforated steel I had. Simple, functional, stops passengers getting their foot stuck in the belt  Turned out to be easier to make than I thought - I used the original plastic hugger and lower guard as templates, cut them out with a jigsaw, cleaned up with a file. Both guards have a small strip riveted to them to stiffen them slightly. Bent to shape, painted them silver, job done! They're probably not to everyone's taste, but they work for me cheers, lemonchili    | ||
| Bomber |
go out to yer garage and make sumpin hunk o alumuminum/stailess, a drill, edge of yer bech for a brake, an hour, and, Hey Presto, custom guard  | ||
| Road_thing |
Bomber, you are an artiste! rt | ||
| Bomber |
Thang -- thank you kindly -- while I may be approaching that area, I am no engineer, as evidence by the fact that the guard pictured above is the thrid I've made, in ever-increasing guages of aluminum, due to vibration-induced stress fractured in the first two ;-} if I'd only paid attention in math classes in school, stead of smokin in the boys room -- sigh interesting side note on makin stuff yerself -- back when I was makin a dozen or so knives a year, I was bemoaning my lack of pro-level equiment, and how wonderful my knives would be if only I had a zoomy $2G belt-grinder, ,the knife-weilding population would beat a path to my door that chirstmas, my mom-in-law received a book on metalworking artists around the world -- the picture of the guy engraving a beautiful silver platter, using his feet as a vice, a nail as his graver, and a rock as his hammer, well and truely shut me up no, I ask for a really HIGH-QUALITY nail for christmas | ||
| Oldog |
Bomber: on a serious note have you annealed the aluminium before bending it? from the porch the ol dog |
