Yamaha YDS 2 & Yamaha YDS 3 Brake Bracket Aluminium Casting (Part 2)

Background: This is an update to an ongoing project to Reverse Engineer and re-manufacture brake and clutch brackets with levers for Yamaha YDS 2 and YDS 3 motorcycles. Creation of Digital Twins of the original parts and manufacture of the patterns for these were covered in a previous post. A few weeks ago Harling Foundries …

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Sand Cast Switch Design and Pattern

Our customer’s customer had an idea for a component in their head they wanted to be made from cast aluminium. They put down the idea onto a piece of paper with some key dimensions and that’s where we began. The hand drawn image was recreated in CAD. Numerous iterations of the design were made based …

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Yamaha YDS 2 & Yamaha YDS 3 Brake Bracket Aluminium Casting (Part 1)

Background: Yamaha YDS 2s and YDS 3s were sold in the early to mid 1960s. These bikes, had a cable operated clutch and front brake. They used very similar brake bracket castings for both but were sided due to the brake lever pivot bolt holes. There is a slight difference between the YDS 2 and …

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