Potential home made fork/ home made parts thread.

[EdFace]

I was in my garage messing around came up with this idea for a fork:

I chopped off the dropouts from my old deck. Im going to use them as legs. I also cut of the legs from my stock fork as you can see in the picture so the only thing left is to sand down that square plate until it's flat and then weld a new plate on there so that the new legs will fit and then finally weld the new legs on. I personally think this is a pretty good idea for a fork especially because all you need are some spare parts and access to a welder. what do you people think? is this a good potential fork?!

 

[anticee23]

how much

 

[MattThomMakesMeWarmInside]

sorry, but no. The legs are made of thin weak aluminum and the tube is just regular. Its just a wider and potentially weaker fork. Nope I dont think it has any potential

 

[jamiemac2005]

looks mighty sketch.

 

[Matt Money]

u cant weld aluminum to steel .........sorry

 

[dezbert]

Yea^^^

 

[SOA]

u cant weld aluminum to steel .........sorry

yup true, also even if u could weld it u have get a fork thats ether broken & a deck plus spend money on those to make it

below home made forks, they never bent on me, i just was stufffing around with the idea last year

needed: 1 x YAK twin spring suspension fork 2 x Sockets to fit over the legs tubes, 2 x High tensil bolts, 2 x Washers, 2 x lock nuts

 

[Stevenson]

SOA those forks loook mad strong

 

[Dustin DeSimone]

SOA those forks loook mad strong

 

[EdFace]

anticee wrote...

how much

LMAO. I haven't even made this yet, and Matt Money brought up a good point that I didn't take into account so this is probably not even gonna happen. Instead im gonna stick to my original idea of using some steel square tubing for the legs and see what i can come up with.

and SOA that fork looks awsome.

 

[corruptedrapture]

soa fork looks sick and strong

 

[asianpuff16]

eddie they look sketchyy

 

[EdFace]

that's cause my dropouts are all screwed up. if they were new and welded on and everything it would way better.

 

[kyle199]

SOA they look mad id ride them lol

 

[brinddy]

like the other sed man, look how many people crack the back of there decks, probably wouldnt last very wrong, but good work on tryin anyway, maybe u could work out sumthing better

 

[Cookie]

you put deck reinforcements on those things haha

 

[ashz893scootys]

u cant weld aluminum to steel .........sorry

yup true, also even if u could weld it u have get a fork thats ether broken & a deck plus spend money on those to make it

below home made forks, they never bent on me, i just was stufffing around with the idea last year

needed: 1 x YAK twin spring suspension fork 2 x Sockets to fit over the legs tubes, 2 x High tensil bolts, 2 x Washers, 2 x lock nuts

can i buy that frok off you?

 

[SOA]

u cant weld aluminum to steel .........sorry

yup true, also even if u could weld it u have get a fork thats ether broken & a deck plus spend money on those to make it

below home made forks, they never bent on me, i just was stufffing around with the idea last year

needed: 1 x YAK twin spring suspension fork 2 x Sockets to fit over the legs tubes, 2 x High tensil bolts, 2 x Washers, 2 x lock nuts

can i buy that frok off you?

we dont sell them like that, we sell them like this

if u want bolted socket models buy a yak heavy duty spring fork & make one like i did for 35 aud

 

[Taylor Feist]

nice forks

 

[jgmurch]

sorr but epic fail, if you wanna use dropouts use ald a's dropouts.