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Fountain Inn, SC United States | Wonder how these would fit with the Thrush mufflers.. |
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Iron Butt
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| Jeff, I do not think they will fit the Thrush mufflers unless you can cut the tab off of the OEM mufflers that the tips are attached to and weld it to the Thrush mufflers. Fabricating a plate and welding it to the thrush mufflers to locate the tips in the proper location. |
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Iron Butt
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| I'm really starting to get pumped about this! I stopped in at the shop that I jobbed the machining out to (for at least the prototypes and initial production batch) today on my way home from my own shop which is right next door and the owner informed me that the prototypes should be COMPLETED by Monday afternoon! That means pictures of them on a Vision by Tuesday evening! It looks like the first production batch will be for a total of 23 sets and I have 5 of those already spoken for by member of just this board!
I'm also working on a couple of other designs such a a Gatlin style tip with no slash cut as well as a special tool to clean them. It's amazing how fast things can come together when you find the right person/shop to work with! |
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Puddle Jumper
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centrel Minnesota | ant way of adapting it to a S1L2 pipes ? |
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Tourer
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East TN | Yep, I'm in line for a set as well...When does the store open?? |
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Tourer
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Spirit Lake IA "Birthplace of Victory Motorcycles" | How do they look on a bike Travelinman? Pics? |
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Visionary
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Rancho Cucamonga, CA | Count me in too.
I still have stock pipes but I want to upgrade. What pipes will these fit on? Ness? |
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Tourer
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scotts valley, California | Just to keep things straight, the installed tips in the photo above (with the crosses) are NOT Travelin Man's tips. TM, I recommend that you do post a photo so people know what they are ordering. I apologize for any confusion my photo may have caused. |
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Iron Butt
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| Okay, here is the scoop. I will have 20 complete sets of tips ready for shipping by Tuesday evening. When I say ready for shipping, I mean ready for shipping, all boxed up and ready to go. I will post pictures Monday evening of the tips as well as a picture of a tip on my Vision.
This first production run will have a finely machined finish only, because of the widely desired combination of finishes I will leave the final finish up to you. Included in the instructions will by a listing of companies that do either chrome plating (including black chrome), powder coating, or anodizing, I have worked with at least two of these companies in the past I know they do excellent work.
The biggest news is that I have started a new company so as to keep this business of custom parts separate from my original business of manufacturing industrial carbide tipped cutting tools. The new company is named:
Mr. Wizard's Billet Creations
All payments for the current run of tips will be accepted through me personally but by the first of the year I will have set up a PayPal account and separate accounting for the new company.
This company is also already on facebook at MrWizards BilletCreations and here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100001563987908 |
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Iron Butt
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| Guys, I have to eat a little crow here, I know I said that everything would be ready to ship by today, unfortunately there were some machine problems over the weekend and the first main base was only finished just before lunch today. I picked it up and took the following pictures.......... enjoy, and I will post again when things really are ready to ship! Rich
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Iron Butt
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| BTW, the pictures above are of my own set, I didn't want the flutes on the outside, I'm going smooth. |
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Cruiser
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Allen Park, MI | Sweet.... |
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Tourer
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Spirit Lake IA "Birthplace of Victory Motorcycles" | Nice. Got pictures on a bike? Like to also see one with flutes. How much heat will these tips see? Thinking natural with clear coat and black center. How fine is the finish? |
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Iron Butt
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| Mark, funny should ask about the pictures of them on the bike, they are below! Sorry about the side shot, the best way I know of taking pictures for upload is to take them with my phone and send them to my email letting the phone resize the photos to a size that is able to be uploaded. The finish is extremely fine, for those wishing to get them chromed the prechroming polishing will go very quickly. If you want to get the center bullet done in black or any other color I would recommend getting them anodized rather than powder coated but that would be for durability of the finish rather than due to problems related to heat. Now that I've seen one on my Vision I've changed my mind and I'm going to get them done in chrome with the bullet done in black chrome.
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Iron Butt
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| BTW, while taking off the stock tip I noticed how badly my heat shields are out of place, are they adjustable or should I cut the stock straps and replace them with stainless steel hose clamps? |
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Iron Butt
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Tourer
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Spirit Lake IA "Birthplace of Victory Motorcycles" | What is your best guess on cost to chrome & black chrome bullet? Looks great! |
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Tourer
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Spirit Lake IA "Birthplace of Victory Motorcycles" | How's sound? Any different? Does this design allow more / less / same volume of exhaust? |
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Iron Butt
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| The tips allow the same if not more flow than the stock tips, the only real difference is that the direction of the flow is diverted to go through the multiple openings. I started my Vision briefly in the garage (hey, I want to live to enjoy them!) and the sound did not sound any different from the stock tips. |
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Iron Butt
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| I should have the fluted one tomorrow and when I get one I'll take pictures of it and post it here as well |
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Visionary
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Rancho Cucamonga, CA | Have you thought about asking the people on the post that have committed to buying how many want chrome/blk chrome and maybe doing a bulk chroming? I think that combo sounds great and want it too. |
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Iron Butt
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| Darrell, that is a good idea and I'll put up a new ordering thread (once I get the administrator's approval first) so that people can give me definite choices and I'll have choices posted. I just sent the first sample complete tip to one of the platers that I know do great work so as to get a quote on chrome, black chrome, and powder coating in limited quantities. Tomorrow I'm sending a second complete tip to an anodizing company in Indiana that I have used in the past for hard anodizing of my cutting tool bodies and with which I have been extremely satisfied. I expect to have prices early next week and then I'll leave it up to you guys to decide if you want the machined tip sets (which I'll be able to ship to you right away) or wait to get them from chroming and or anodizing. |
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Tourer
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Simi Valley, CA | I want chrome chrome! And I want it now....  |
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Visionary
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Memphis | Gee, you guys have only gotten 11,000 hits on this thread. I hope you can somehow unload the first 20 sets!  |
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