Engineering/Milling shop in East End/Durham

[Delboy]

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Looking for a machine shop that could mill out the axle hole in a fork bottom from 15mm to 17mm.

My brother is doing a XS650 Street Tracker COVID build - not really my cup of tea, but whatever.

The XS had 17mm axles but one of the fork bottoms has a big ding in it and the fork tube will not slide to the bottom properly. I have a set forks from another XS model at my inlaws that has exactly the same fork bottoms but the bike that they came off only had a 15mm axle.

The axle hole in my fork bottom would need to be centred in a mill and reamed out from 15 to 17 mm. Its not a huge amount of work but does needs to be accurate.

Both Yamaha and Suzuki seemed to do this quite a lot back in the day and used the same fork bottoms with different size axles depending on the model and the wheel.

Thanks

 

[Klaatu]

Precision Cycle Works on Simcoe St South In Oshawa.
They have a machine shop and they are pretty good.

Precision Cycle Works Home

Precision Cycle Works Specializing in Motorcycle and ATV Service, Machining and Hard Parts. Call 905 571-2448 for information on service and parts.

www.precisioncycleworks.ca

 

[TK4]

845 Westney Rd S in Ajax, Ontario, Wasp Performance Engines 905-426-6295

 

[bitzz]

If you want to come to Omemee I can do that for you.
email is best
jim at bitzz dot com

 

[Delboy]

Thanks all. I'll pass this on to him

Jim. I'll also give him your contact information. He is just north of Pickering so its a nice drive, especially at this time of year

Brian

 

[Delboy]

BTW. His name is John just so you know if he reaches out

 

[ungoloth]

Alas, I'm a retired machinist without a machine shop lol

 

[Priller]

Just a quick update on this one:

I needed a two-piece sleeve machined to accommodate a swingarm swap from an RC51 SP-1 to SP-2. I contacted Precision Cycle Works, and they basically said that they're too busy machining things like cylinder heads to be able to tackle a simpler (and cheaper) job in any sort of reasonable time. They put me onto a small shop in Whitby called Quadra Machining.

The guys name is Terry, and he was able to sort me out with exactly what I needed in a couple days for a very fair price. If you need anything done that's small and one-off, he'd be a good guy to call. Here's his website:

Quadra Machining

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