Bicycle Frame Jig
This is an instructable for building your own bicycle frame jig.
Bicycle frame jig. Also can use 1 1 1 8. Used for road bike frames mountain bike frames cruiser frames tandem frames and everything in between. English euro mid bottom brackets bb30 pf30 and t47 with widths now up to 130mm. We are also on instagram.
The jig stands heat from welding and brazing and it can also take a lot of abuse and still remain strai. Being both a cheapskate and not having much in the terms of machine tools and or skills to use them i ve slowly come up with th. Here s a jig for building bicycle frames. I put a lot of time into researching other designs that already existed and then i mixed and matched ideas to get at my own thing.
I am interested in making mone. Frame jig frame jigs run the gamut from 350 it ll do for now disposable and flammable particle board versions up to 5 000 rocket science precision aluminum and steel and no longer available pieces of art and of course rock solid dependable work horses in between and of course sputnik fits in there somewhere. With a chop source frame jig kit you could have your bike frame jig assembled in just a couple of hours. My arctos inspired bicycle frame building jig.
This bike frame jig will make a micro mini bmx frame with a small as a 14 top tube length mtb frames road track 29ers up to a 27 70cm long top tube. The simplest bicycle framebuilding jig i could come up with. I attended the chromoly brazing class at their portland campus. A simple bicycle frame jig.
1 1 4 hiddenset 1 5 tapered and integrated headtubes. If you re interested in building my design drop me a note to let me know what doesn t make sense or could be improved in some way. And of course there s a newcomer who has limited offerings but is. A little over a year ago i took a bicycle frame building class through the united bicycle institute.
I spent about nine months of nights and weekends in 2016 17 building this bicycle frame welding fixture a k a. This design is something i ve been slowly picking away at for several years. Stay tuned for part 2 of this post with more photos of the finished jig its constituent parts and short descriptions of how i manufactured each of the custom parts. Since then i have wanted to build more bike frames.
Bicycle frame building jig. Benchmark tooling will be making our first appearance at the north america handmade bicycle show in dallas texas on aug 21 23 2020 come see us and feel the benchmark pro and 1 1 frame building fixtures.