New 2 wheeled project and Oxy acetylene bottle refilling
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:33 pm
Hello guys!
Im afraid the bx has taken a back seat to my new project recently - another motorbike. I blew the engine on the last one and i am building this new bike from the ground up so that it is everything i want. As the bits are from all over the place, there will be a few brackets and stuff that need to be fabricated and ive decided to try and use the oxy acetylene welder ive had lying around in the shed. Never used it before but im confident i will be fine with it. I need to know where i can get the gas bottles refilled without having to rent new bottles. I dont mind paying a deposit for new ones if no one is happy refilling the ones i have. Anyone know of any suppliers of the stuff?
The main part that will need welding is a custom exhaust, which i reckon i can achieve good results with, rather than with a stick welder or mig, due to the thin material thickness. For those of you into bikes, im putting a KTM LC4 640cc single cyl engine into an Aprilia RS 125 chassis
This is what i have collected so far, with loads more bits arriving in the post this week:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... 055f88898f
The only bits left to get now are the engine itself and the ignition module/ecu. I have CAD data for it as i worked with one two years ago at uni so i know it will fit in this chassis no problem, plus loads of people have done the same conversion before with success.
Simran
Im afraid the bx has taken a back seat to my new project recently - another motorbike. I blew the engine on the last one and i am building this new bike from the ground up so that it is everything i want. As the bits are from all over the place, there will be a few brackets and stuff that need to be fabricated and ive decided to try and use the oxy acetylene welder ive had lying around in the shed. Never used it before but im confident i will be fine with it. I need to know where i can get the gas bottles refilled without having to rent new bottles. I dont mind paying a deposit for new ones if no one is happy refilling the ones i have. Anyone know of any suppliers of the stuff?
The main part that will need welding is a custom exhaust, which i reckon i can achieve good results with, rather than with a stick welder or mig, due to the thin material thickness. For those of you into bikes, im putting a KTM LC4 640cc single cyl engine into an Aprilia RS 125 chassis
This is what i have collected so far, with loads more bits arriving in the post this week:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... 055f88898f
The only bits left to get now are the engine itself and the ignition module/ecu. I have CAD data for it as i worked with one two years ago at uni so i know it will fit in this chassis no problem, plus loads of people have done the same conversion before with success.
Simran