While the enemy was out visiting her mother I got all my honey-dew list polished off and escaped to the
mess disgrace workshop and thought about how to trim that handlebar mounting yoke down.
It wouldn't fit in the pillar drill any longer so cutting new profiles to take a 1" tube would have to be done by hand
Here's is shown the starting point, and the holesaw through the first one.
I span the whole thing round and did the other one. But... Would they line up OK?
This was all done with a hand-held Milwaukee Fuel 18v battery combi-drill.
The torque in the drill really surprised me, it was quicker than with my pillar drill and there was no "stalling".
Here's the angle across the forks when they are held in a vice (it is an arbitrary number), followed by the angle of the 1" tube when rested in the cut-outs.
Only 1.1 degrees out. This will not notice as I will make the handlebars of differing lengths.
Interestingly the measured distance of each hole to the cross-piece beneath it is exactly the same, so maybe the yoke is on the pivot sleeve 1.1 degrees askew???
That was all for today, but every little bit helps.