Aluminium Mountain Bike Stem

[Jecheon]

Hello All,

I thought I'd share some photos of my first proper lathe/mill project. It isn't perfect but I'm quite pleased with the outcome and is now in use fitted to my mountain bike.

I hope it's of interest.

Pete

 

[Bill Gruby]

I see nothing wrong. Looks good.

"Billy G"

 

[xalky]

It came out very nice. A little artsy too. )

 

[Philco]

Jecheon, that's a great job & a good looking part. The more I look at it, it looks like it will even make the bike go faster!
Phil

 

[melsdad]

That is a great looking part for manual machineing! Are you going to anodized it?

sent from my hand held hickymajig

 

[JoeSixPack74]

Looks great do you have any pictures of it installed?

 

[Ray C]

Yeah, let's see it installed. -Looks great BTW....

Ray

 

[Jecheon]

Thanks for the comments. I'm going to get it anodised black, but want to give it a good try out first. So far it has just been around the block a few times, but it is going to get truly tested down a hill in North Wales this weekend.

 

[Bill Gruby]

Extremely impressive.

"Billy G"

 

[mattthemuppet2]

really impressive, looks solid as a rock too! If anywhere is going to find a weakness, it'll be Wales I wouldn't hang back on anodising it though, as mud and sweat'll make that look grotty pretty quickly. If you have a bench power supply, it isn't too hard to do it yourself and you can buy the dyes on eBay for not much.