A small mid week update! Installed the new shielded bearings on the spindle barrel, received the gas spring from Mcmaster-carr and started working on the bracket that will hold the spring behind the column, made a stud for the center hole of the head clamping bolts... the next thing on the agenda is going to be home switches. Does anyone have any recommendations or do"s and don'ts as far as home switches are concerned?
(the new bearings spin like "buttah" !!! )
(the current state of the grizz...)
(one side of the soon to be spring mount bracket thing... through exhaustive research and development we have come to the conclusion that the 3 "speed" holes increase the strength and performance of the bracket by a factor of 10!!! )
(the spring should go something like this, there will be a plate with 4 countersunk screws connecting left and right brackets together, the spring will mount in the center)
(stud made from a metric cap screw... one side is metric the other is SAE)
(come to find out the increased length of the hardware due to the head spacer makes it impossible to insert the center bolt when the head is installed, so we had to make a stud to replace the bolt)
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