1979 Honda CB750 Bobber build

[rakeNtrail]

For the average chopper head building only one frame a jig is really not necessary.

A good welding table will suffice and will have a lot more uses later. Jigs are great if you want to
manufacture frames and need to repeat the same frame more than once but for a one off frame
it's a waste of your time and money building a jig. Many wonderful, straight frames have been built
without a jig.

[jimmib]

[rakeNtrail] Many wonderful, straight frames have been built without a jig.
Amen to that!

[sleepyonthree]

I made up the drawings at the top of the page a few years ago for another forum. Good to see someone thought they were useful enough to save.

Yup! Good info both the pics and the read for anyone looking about how ta go about it.

[sleepyonthree]

For the average chopper head building only one frame a jig is really not necessary.

A good welding table will suffice and will have a lot more uses later. Jigs are great if you want to
manufacture frames and need to repeat the same frame more than once but for a one off frame
it's a waste of your time and money building a jig. Many wonderful, straight frames have been built
without a jig.

My first frame was done on a concrete floor with guide lines, 6ft straight edge and a plumb bob. Since gradgiated to a 18 inch high T table cus I no bend so goot no mo.

[jimmib]

It is better to use tubing of the same gauge, you maintain the same flex that way.

Agreee hole heartedly on the tube, even if it has to be machined to fit, but this same disscussion went on for quite a few pages on the old forum!

[jonester123]

Hi guys and gals, i have copied all information that is needed to make the slugs. Because the frame is old smaller size tubeing and the new tubeing is bigger for the hardtail build i am going to get my machine shop to make me the slugs out of solid steel round stock, and i will be takeing in a piece of new tube and old frame tube so they can make a perfect fit to each size. Thanks for all the information, now time to get things organized again.

[railroad bob]

I made up the drawings at the top of the page a few years ago for another forum. Good to see someone thought they were useful enough to save.

Thanks for doing that, I've saved them for my files. I especially like the countersink on the holes for the spot welding.
Good idea there, allows better weld penetration.

[jonester123]

Hi guys and gals, the build has slowed down to a crawl since i had to help my mother with some hard earned cash to buy a 1997 dodge caravan. Like i needed to buy another vehicle like a hole in the head, i already have three of them so i am trying to sell 2 of them so i can get some extra money again to help fund the bike build stuff. But i do have my new front tire to mount on rim and some other materials to get more done, so more pics will be coming shortly when i get my ass in gear.

[jonester123]

Well i am back, getting my workshops all cleaned up and organizing workbenches machinery so i can get back to building my bike stuff. Still more to do but atleast i have room again to work in there all winter , need to pick up some new or used 4ft-6ft long ballast light and tubes to put proper lighting in my second workshop addition i did a while ago. Getting tired of using my trouble lights etc to be able to see and work in there, also been busy polishing and cleaning up the 1997 dodge caravan. So stay tuned more stuff coming soon.

[krymis]

I made up the drawings at the top of the page a few years ago for another forum. Good to see someone thought they were useful enough to save.

neo i saved them and have had staples blow all of the pages posed up to poster size and hang them on my shop wall to refer back to. I think all of that that was posted was great info.

[jonester123]

Hi guys and gals, well i have made alot of progress getting parts and materials etc. My hardrive on this computer is about to fry totally soon and it will not let me load anything on the hardrive and let me get to it so i can post up a ton of progress pics. So hopefully real soon i will be getting my new computer and then i will post up alot of stuff for everyone to see.

[Maz]

Take it easy there Thomas, look after those pics and make sure you don't lose them!

Maz xx

[Bikesandfires]

Just a thought Jonester, Have you run Disc Defragmenter and Disc Clean-up on that computer lately? Also, like Maz said, protect your pics....If you haven't already done it, burn them to a disc and then delete from the hard-drive. I'd bet the drive isn't about to fry...it's just full..

[jonester123]

Hi maz and bikesandfires, no worries i have all my pictures of my stuff saved in my photobucket account. I have tried fixing my hard drive with microsofts online tech help, and they said with the problems i am haveing the hard drive is worn out and cannot hold anything stored in it . Every time i try to save stuff to the hard drive it crashes the whole computer, i tried defraging hard drive plus running microsoft hard drive repair software. The software told me that i have major clusters damage and can not be repaired.

[yona]

I have had this happen and once the drive gets that full, you can't burn or save , because there is not room to save it for burning . Same as deleting , you have to have space, to put the stuff you are deleting .........I have a copy of EZRecovery PRO and can move the stuff to another hard drive ....I have done this even after a bumbass tech wiped it and put a pirated copy of Windows 7 over it.....Harddrives are cheap and you can put 2 or 3 HD's in one computer.....you didn't say if you ran cleandisk or not ....if you can run it remove all of the stuff that you don't really need and then try to delete the small stuff till it will defrag......even with a new computer , a back up is nice .....I have a extra 500 gig HD just for car and bike stuff...