The only thing I’ve noticed with a faro arm is the software that meshes everything together is more refined. The faro arm I used was attached to a granite surface plate and therefore wasn’t portable and you were constrained on the size of parts and location of scanning. There are certainly portable equivalents but they aren’t on the scale of price of a Kinect and a somewhat decent computer.
Our engine was scanned with a faro arm and we still had to take measurements to verify as it’s just a bunch of triangles.
I think a lot of it is the mesh density and what ever program you use to stitch it together. I’ve only messed around with the Kinect for an hour or two so I have don’t really have an idea of it’s accuracy yet, it looks pretty tight though, and the one of me wasn’t refined or anything. I think it would be good to have for modeling clearances with toleranced surfaces measured.
Right…I had a thought of the possibility of scanning the arches on the focus once it’s totally finished to see about having dies made to make the parts in steel…that would be KILLER. I could charge a FORTUNE for sheetmetal RS replica parts.
I found a tach drive and tappet cover in my spare parts for him, he’s supposed to swing by tomorrow to pick them up and buy those pods off me…(if memory serves right, the PD carbs on his bike have 100mains stock, 110mains will work well with the pods if that’s the case…won’t need pilots upgraded)
you say that like it’s going to cost more than $200 to finish your cafe bike…(it’s not)
I have mesh to finish your sidecovers, I’ll finish them and not ask anything for the mesh. -free
tins need paint. I’ll paint them, just get a rattle-can in the color you like and a quart of cheap 2K urethane clear - about $40 in materials
needs a few gaskets for the motor to be re-assembled - $100 or so last I remember you saying it would cost
assemble and ride - priceless (free)
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I’ll be right back…
my buddy that upgraded the jets in his PD46a’s says he bought them from here:
the website is new, used to be www.crc2onlinecatalog.com, I can’t find seperate jets listed on their site…might require an email to them…
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Wait!
scroll a touch over halfway down…Kei-Hin main jets, $3.25/ea. My buddy says he has 110’s in his on velocity stacks…might be best to go with a 105 or 107.5 on the pods since they won’t flow as much as stacks
Next I made an axle. This involved turning down some SS tube to 25mm and then tapping one end, machining some spacers (also SS) and modifying the stock wheel spacers. I know these pics suck but I like trying to document at least a little of the HOW:
So then with the help of Gennaro and Josh, I wrestled the tire onto the rim. (4.00-18). Can’t put it in the fork though, because it hits the jig, but it clears the fork nicely. From this perspective it looks like it’s going to hit the frame, but I assure you, it’s just the picture.
