Shortened DX Frame.

Looks sweet now. Someone should tell Torker the Clearence issue was only
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wow three people posted at the same time.

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Thanks for the support guys!

My issue with the frame was... I've been trying to learn wheel walking
lately.. and all the paint on the corners of the frame crown has worn
off.... because my feet hit the frame. This makes it very hard for me
to learn wheel walking.... as my feet kept hitting the frame and not
the tire... maybe I'm not doing it right, but I know when I learn
gliding later on... I'll have even more problems...

Anyways, it looks much nicer now. When I get it painted sometime in the
next 20-30 years, I'll post up some pictures of the whole unicycle. I
also cut off and ground down the brake mounts... who the hell needs
them? plus they wouldn't work now that there is... 1.5" taken off of
both frame legs!

Also, if I get a new tire, I'm going to have to shim the wheel for sure
😉 But I plan on running this one till it's a slick.

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I've got you beat on clearance

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Lets see you put a trials wheel in there 🙂

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Let's see the bottom of the frame!

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mafiamike said:

Let's see the bottom of the frame!

Not till I paint it.

It looks just like the DX did before.

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Quoted message said:

Took all of like 20 minutes.

Hacksawed the frame legs. Grinded a curve in the bottom of the legs at
equal length much shorter than original. Welded with crappy fluxcored
welder. Grinded down hideous fluxcore welds. Next step, someone buy me
a MIG and a TIG welder with actual settings, not 1-4 on heat and 0-10
on feed.
There is about 2mm clearance. 1mm at the bob in my tire, time to true
up my wheel.

Hey that sounds like my welder 🙂

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Joe2005 said:

Hey that sounds like my welder 🙂

It's not 😉 Mines from Canadian Tire. You don't have that in Wichita.

Ok, fine, I'll post a whole picture of the Unicycle and my BC.

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Most of the paint up to half way up the legs has been destroyed from
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Borgschulze said:

It's not 😉 Mines from Canadian Tire. You don't have that in Wichita.

Lol no wonder its a piece of [censored] don't you know you're not supposed to
buy a welder from a _TIRE_ store.

P.S. Nice Job

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Joe2005 said:

Lol no wonder its a piece of [censored] don't you know your not supposed to
buy a welder from a _TIRE_ store.

Haha, it was cheap though, and it was a Christmas present... gets the
job done.

I just need to go to Princess Auto and buy me one of those cheap $35
auto tint welding masks, I have one of those stupid hand held things.

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Borgschulze said:

Haha, it was cheap though, and it was a Christmas present... gets the
job done.

I just need to go to Princess Auto and buy me one of those cheap $35
auto tint welding masks, I have one of those stupid hand held things.

God no man you can go skimp on the welder but for gods sake PROTECT
YOUR EYES. Get yourself a good helmet from a RESPECTABLE welding
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Joe2005 said:

God no man you can go skimp on the welder but for gods sake PROTECT YOUR
EYES. Get yourself a good helmet from a RESPECTABLE welding place.

Give me $300 for a good helmet then 🙂

A cheap auto tint is much better than this little stick with the piece
of glass that I have.

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I prefur the head-bob method to get the helmet down and a standard
helmet (non auto-darkening). Im going to make one of those frames I
posted a pic of for a trials wheel soon, I will post pics of it when
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Looks good😄
Did you get a new rim or paint/powder coat it?

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Wow I really need to do that to my '07 KH muni, but it's aluminum not
steel. There's at least 1.5" of unnecessary clearance above the [Duro]
3.0 tire! It may also be because the duro leopard is lower profile than
the gazz; I didn't notice the huge gap until -after- I changed it to
the Duro. I'd like to reduce the clearance to around 1/4".

And btw, with the LM rim the gazz wouldn't fit anyway, so I won't be
going back to that tire. I actually now prefer the duro/LM combo even
though the duro is heavier than the gazz, but it's also way more stable
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wats so bad about having a good amount of clearence?

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skilewis74 said:

Looks good😄
Did you get a new rim or paint/powder coat it?

Check my other thread. I Sharpied it.

MuniAddict said:

Wow I really need to do that to my '07 KH muni, but it's aluminum not
steel. There's at least 1.5" of unnecessary clearance above the [Duro]
3.0 tire! I'd like to get it to around 1/4".

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Borgschulze said:

Whoa? Aluminum?!?!

My eyes for some reason seen DX...

I was practicing wheel walking today more... I'm consistently getting
3-4 pushes in now instead of 2... I think it worked.

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