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Old 03-30-2012, 02:22 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by Weldangrind
You've got skills! Did you make that on a milling machine? I can see the fitting that joins the two reservoirs; does fluid fill one cylinder and then dump into the other?
Most of its made in a lathe apart from the flats that were milled..
oil goes in one section flows across though the brass nipple into
the other sction then out... It was only going to be one section but
I had the room so made a second section in the end..

I have a lathe & mill in my home shop..


By petenz at 2012-03-29
Simply genius! Thanks for sharing that with us. I might think about a similar project for my XR.
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