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Well i was looking around in the shed and i found a few nice big lumps of alloy and decided to make a set of front pulleys....First pic shows the peice being set up in a four jaw chuck...second pic is the rear of the pulley being shaped out..next one the recess/offset in the rear is being shaped out.....then the ribs for the drive belt are being dug out (the pulley begins to take shape)....as the night wears on ;) its cut off and mounted on the way it sits on the engine and the front is sculptured out...after a quick buff with emrey cloth and there she sits next to the original!!Cloned in alloy!I next series of DIY will show anodizing in your garden shed :cheers: .....i am not a tight arse...i just lost a yahoo auction on Greddy front pulleys and decided...Bah who needs yahoo

*EDIT*damn...someone give me an email addy...i cant post the pics*

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here ye all go.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... seems to be an issue not only with me uploading to the site but to my own webspace on optus.... gimmie a min

here guys/girls

http://members.optusnet.com.au/japimports/troy/

i wish i could just do shit like that from stuff i find in the shed :cheers:

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you buy the material and i will machine them up and anodize them.....Machine shops charge around $80 an hour i think and the anodizing you can price up...so in short...buy some greddy ones (not to mention i think you will do poos in your pants when you go to buy the alloy) :cheers:

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ROFL... yeah, true that.

but not all of us are like you troy... you must have the most resource filled garage know to man

Ahh yes...but i certainly didnt find all the shit i have in there....When you guys were in year 10 chasing chicks and smoking durries behind the school...i was in year 10 i bought a lathe from the school and was making sik shit at home...or in class that matter :cheers:

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nah i just cloned them.....i couldnt be bothered playing with diffrent size belts and all that crap.......i guess i could have just copied a set of greddy ones...but know one i knew had them at 1 in the morning when i copped a rush and decided to make them :cheers:

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