pictures of this? i often find myself trying to get more tire clearance on already built frames and this sounds way more rad than trying to wrestle a whole frame into my bench vice
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I used a couple of completely solid 3D printed pieces and one of those wood clamps to put dimples in my old SLX road frame to clear 30mm tires!
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I once made this out of an old C-clamp to increase tire clearance on an already painted frameā¦ Wrapped the chainstay in thick leather to protect the paint. It worked out quite wellā¦
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lmao your link goes to your flickr album page and the point83 christmas folder sent me, i helped start point83 like a million years ago!
i couldnāt find the pic of your vice-grip based dempler tho
Oops, try this link:
Are your initials JR? If so we met through Rollo like 20 years ago. I was active in .83 from 2007 to 2012ish, near the start but not at the start. Lots of my everyday friends came from that group!
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nah, iām terry dean! or just dean back then.
still have lots of buddies from those days too, tho we mostly just catch up online once in a while these days.
those crimps are rad, i wouldnāt have thought thereād be enough leverage with regular ol vice grips, but i guess there is!
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Ah yeah, Iāve met you once or twice but itās been a while.
No Seattle thread about Vise Grips should exist without a Val reference, so Iāll just say that I bet he would have done it this way too.
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This reminds me of the little Knipex plier wrench I recently bought! That has an insane amount of leverage, Iāll try using that on the frame Iām planning to build.
Itās this tool:
Impressive leverage and you can set the width of the opening, sounds like a perfect recepy for dimpling chainstays.
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Made a simpler from a tube cutter.
Needed one for a finished frame, the one for my vise wouldnāt work.
Brazed a piece of curved 22mm tubing in, where the cutting wheel was..
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This is fantastic and should be posted on the Show off your shop-made/DIY Tools! thread.
I have a handful of broken pipe cutters at work and I hadnāt thought how useful that threaded mechanism could be. New weekend project coming up.
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Needed one today before the frame got picked up.
Was scanning my workshop for something useful, there it was
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