Day #6

 Day six was very productive, I was able to complete a lot of the important stuff like finished up all the mounting brackets. The fisher bracket that I created was my motor mount slider allowing me to tension the chain properly with out having the proper chain length. Since we didn’t have the proper angle and to complete this bracket I cut square tubing in half instead of welding flat stock together to make the angle. In hindsight I think I will create a mount for the back of the motor as well just in Stiffen it up and make sure it is as stiff as possible. The next thing I did to finish this bracket was using the mill to create two slides so that the motor is able to slide back-and-forth. The next two brackets I made were the final two and there to hold the bearings for the jack shaft, if you’ve read my previous blog post I talked about how the jack shaft was an essential part of creating my brake giving it enough torque to move. These last two brackets consisted of flat stock that I cut out into triangle shape so they are able to fit into the rear corner of my bike frame I also created swatch in these as well to enable the space to move back-and-forth tension in the chains as well. Finally I tacked both of them up and welded one of the brackets in place I did not get around to welding the second one in as I did not have enough time.

Hours: 4:30

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