Michael Richard's Journal

Little By Little.

Michael Richard — Posted on The Cyclekart Club
Tuesday June 18, 2019 7:31 PM

Started on the spring perch for frame attachment, and started fabrication of panhard rod mounts.

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Spring Mounts Welded

Michael Richard — Posted on The Cyclekart Club
Friday June 14, 2019 10:41 PM

Got the spring mounts welded up today and assembled everything to double check clearances. Looks like it's time to source some frame steel.

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Spring Mounts.

Michael Richard — Posted on The Cyclekart Club
Tuesday June 11, 2019 10:18 PM

Got the leaf spring mounts sorted and will finish them up tomorrow. Threw the whole thing together to get an idea of how she swung and am pleased.

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More Front End Fiddling

Michael Richard — Posted on The Cyclekart Club
Thursday June 6, 2019 10:37 PM

I cut the roughs for the transverse spring mounts and got them drilled for radius rods. The plates have an opening that allows the spring to go through them, hopefully making the entire assembly more compact. I'm hoping also that this design will help should the spring break, maybe holding everything somewhat together until the Kart could be stopped. Couldn't do any welding today because of the wet barn floor. I kinda don't like standing in water when I'm SMAW welding. Anyways I mocked it up kinda for an idea of how it will look.

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2019-06-06 22:42:29 # 57526

Comment by Michael Richard

FYI. The paltes will be trimmed down a lot from what you see hwere.

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More Front End Work.

Michael Richard — Posted on The Cyclekart Club
Friday May 31, 2019 7:02 PM

Finished welding the spindle mounts to the axle, and got the bushings installed. Fitted the spindle backing plates to the spindle mounts but haven't drilled them yet. Made the spindle, stub axle weld bushings and will finish fit them to 9 degrees before welding . That way I can use the weld bushing as a guide for the stub axle hole so I hopefully end up with 2 degrees positive camber. Added a photo of a home made bushing installer in case anyone needs to know how to make one. You don't need fancy tools, just some imagination. Trudging along it was nicer today only 95 with 45% humidity. Almost a cold snap LOL.

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Michael Richard — Posted on The Cyclekart Club
Wednesday May 29, 2019 4:57 PM

Got the spindle mounts welded first pass with E6011 rod, and will fill weld two more passes with 6013. I increased the KPI from the 5 degree I was going to use to 7 degrees. She's made out of some heavy stuff, but was almost free and should hold up to the hard South Georgia clay that is concrete when dry,, and sliperier than owl crap when wet. Freshly burned out drill press is going to slow me down for now. Temperature in the barn was around 115 with the fans going. Down here you just drown in your own sweat. Doesn't even evaporate.

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