&Jack; said:
dre its just an old a fork tube welded on to the bottom plate that i made. i was going to make the fork tube out of chromoly stock that was at my dads work but we couldnt figure out how we were going to thread it because we couldnt find a dye big enough to do it...and the cheapest on to buy was like 50 bucks because it was in a set...and i was going to use a compression system but i didnt know where to get an oversized starnut...so i had to settle for a stock tube.....but for the attachment groove if you buy some stock to make your fork you will have to be able to use a lathe...but i didnt take any measurements on that part so i cant really help you with it =-( sorry...
but if anyone is wondering about the tubes, they are a peice of stock lathed out until like 1/4inch from the end where it was welded so that the heat didnt ovalize it
oh and does anyone know if wooden dowel would work good to reinforce it??
shit, that's a really good idea! props man.
and starnuts come with headsets I believe. If it's too small to fit in your bars, then take a piece of a forktube, or a tube that's exactly the same in terms of id and od, and hammer the starnut into that, then slide it into your bars and weld it/secure it inside well, but make sure the forks can go on without hitting that pipe. then when you tighten the bolt the tube will lock against the top of the forktube because they're the same dimensions, and the starnut will be inside the tube and it will . You could use an oversized bolt (dunno where you'd get that) or a threaded rod that either fits the threads in the starnut, or you could get a threaded rod that fits through the starnut, and weld a nut onto the starnut on top.
Shit, that was lengthy, but yeah..
