The Brave Little Magic Drill Press:Showa internals in Marzocchi forks

[Monster Dave]

Great work Dietrich! Glad it turned out so well - they look great! 

[corey]

jb weld = ballsy move.
love it.

[Mr Earl]

I hate to be critical, but there's a serious problem here that I detected in your photos, and that I would be remiss in not pointing out...

Scotch doesn't belong in a brandy snifter!   

That's an amazing project that I would never have the nerve to undertake, nicely done.  And yeah, save up for a mill and a lathe.

[tankerbutt]

HO LEE CRAP!!!!!   

[WTSDS]

Don't get a lathe and a mill, you will then want a CNC machine. You are more than dangerous enough now:-)

Great work, curl the mo !

[DucatiBastard]

-holy effin' shit dude-


Amazing ingenuity, I am totally impressed.  The drill press as a lathe? Inspired

Also, 3M makes an adhesive that I would personally trust more than the J-B. 

-8115 Panel Bonding Adhesive-  I use it at work for gluing cars together, its the tits!


Again, incredible work, well done!

[sbrguy]

that has got to be one the biggest McGuyver mods ever with the methods you used.

the A-Team would be proud. LOL

good job.

[Dietrich]

Thanks all! 

The front end is SO MUCH BETTER. Riding really nice.  I've just had a chance to run around town a bit but found myself bracing for impact out of habit on familiar pieces of bad asphalt only to wonder where the bump went?  The fork is now reacting like I expect it should - Compliant, much smoother damping, way less fork dive....  I'm loving it. Doo-doo doot doot dooooo...  Can't wait to get out in some curvy non-superslab stuff to really see how it's working.  I started with just some baseline/best guess damping settings.  It's working so well now I'm not sure what I would change without some really hard riding.  Next up: Rear shocks.  Mine are totally blown.

Will have to upgrade the scotch glasses!  But the brandy snifter does a great job of minimizing metal shavings in the drink...

A better option for changing the fork color would be to get them anodized.  In quotes I've got in the past it's much more expensive than powder coating.  I'm really happy about the powder coat finish, but they really didn't fit back in the tripples with the thick coating.  The plus side is they're not going to budge a bit now that they're in!

I would love a lathe and small mill.  One-off stuff is usually acheivable by hand or minimal tooling for now.  I did try having the machining done by  shop near my work but they wanted over $200 to machine the fork bottoms.  I had already priced out the drill bits at around $40, so decided to try it myself instead.

[Monsterlover]

Man, you're a straight up nutter.

Im impressed.

[scott_araujo]

Hey, I have that drill press!  Used it for some custom plumbing the other night.

Wild work man.  One question, why didn't you just get the rods welded back together instead of using JB Weld?  Couldn't cost that much, could it?  Not that JB Weld isn't a fine adhesive

Scott

[Goat_Herder]

Totally awesome!  I am not worthy I am not worthy