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REF: Body Parts
Tool Bags
Downtube Bag
The bracket with two nuts already welded to the down tubes was used to fasten the bag. 1)
HD downtube bag. 2) | |
Swingarm Toolbag Mount
The bag sets higher than the exhaust. You'd have to be leaning heavily before that bag will touch the ground.
Making a bracket mount for a leather tool bag. Bracket was made from 1/8“ thick aluminum and some misc chrome hardware. An angle was cut on the front end. 5) | ||
Bracket shaped with a hand file, and holes drilled for mounting to the swingarm. 6) | Holes also drilled to mount the bracket to the bag. 7) | Edges rounded with a file, bracket wet sanded with 320/400/1500 grit paper respectively and then hand polished. 8) |
Final fitting to mark a hole on the rear side at the swingarm. 9) | The hole was then drilled and tapped. 10) | The bag mounting holes in the bracket were partially counter bored to allow clearance between the hardware and swingarm. 11) |
Assembling bracket to bag. 12) | Inside the bag, large flat washers, lock washers and nylocks. 13) | Bag mounted with chrome buttonheads, spacers and Loc-tite. 14) |
If after the bag gets broken in and it sort of flops over, you can add some metal flat stock inside the bag to keep it rigid. 15) |
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maurino17 of the XLFORUM http://xlforum.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1666606
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photos by Johnny Wolf of the XLFORUM http://xlforum.net/forums/showthread.php?t=483698
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