Parts Have Arrived!

Hi All,

Today has been a very exciting day, parts have arrived and building has began! Whoop whoop! In all seriousness it is great to finally get building.  The parts from Paragon Machine Works came in and they are awesome.  The headstock and rear dropouts are perfect.  Kudos to those guys for making great stuff.

I next laid out the template of the bicycle frame and then the headstock at the correct angle.

I then traced out the frame again on some melamine and there is my metal plate template that will be inserted into the frame.

I was then read to cut out the shape out of metal.  This is were things got fun, i went over to the metal shop and found some scrape 3/8" metal and started cutting it out.  I have to say it is a blast cutting and grinding metal.

So after about 45 minutes or so I can up with this.

After some work with a hand file the burs were gone and it was now time for welding.

Not the best welding job, but it is together.  Tomorrow I will work on the connection a little more and it should be sturdy and ready to be epoxied inside the frame when the material gets here.  Until then its another day of waiting.

- Nick