Revised eye bolt negative camber

[dalgrae]

I have after reading various previous posts made a pair of revised negative camber eyebolts I have moved the bush location hole outwards by 5mm to achieve this but also made the thread length longer so if required I can also add some more washers this should give me at least some small degree of negative camber I intend to fit them over the winter lay up

[dalgrae]

Another picture with a bush fitted

[linearaudio]

Another picture with a bush fitted

Excellent picture quality- how do you do it?

[IslipMinor]

Am I missing something? Apart from the picture that is?

[bmcecosse]

Well done! What material did you use for the modified eyebolts ?

[les]

Another picture with a bush fitted

Excellent picture quality- how do you do it?

Who's the naked lady in the background?

[dalgrae]

Another attempt at photo[frame][/frame][frame][/frame]

[les]

Nice bit of engineering, you could go into business!!

[MarkyB]

Another attempt at photo

Which worked!
I'll second the question "What material did you use for the modified eyebolts ?"

[bmcecosse]

Superb!! Well done. I wish I had the tools - and the skills........

[dalgrae]

Made from good quality mild steel block 150mm x 50mm x 50mm they took about 5 hours on a Myford lathe and a modelengineering milling machine that I have, a large part of the time being the shaft diameter from the square bar but this also saved time on the rest of the eyebolt feature

[bmcecosse]

I think that should be fine considering the size of the parts. Although EN8 would be better!

[dalgrae]

You may well be right about the EN8 the wall thicknes has been increased 100% on my parts and were made from the same material as JCB buckets so the supplier told me so it should be OK but your point is very valid

[bmcecosse]

Oh I'm sure it's perfectly satisfactory for the loads imposed by a Minor front suspension. You just need to work out how much you would need to charge for them to make it worth your while.

[chrisryder]

Looks to be a much smaller nut than standard. With normal eyebolts the major diameter of the thread is pretty much the same as the stud diameter... isn't it?

I hope the smaller (machined) thread will be strong enough to take the cornering loads.

The originals may well have been rolled threads to further increase their strength.

[bmcecosse]

Good point about the thread size - although looks more than strong enough for the task - it doesn't have to do much. Easily increased in future runs I'm sure (and will save time on machining too). Pretty sure not rolled threads on originals.....

[les]

The originals are smaller than the shaft so this one is correct!

[chrisryder]

Ah, you're correct. Been a while since I had an eyebolt off.

Originals looks bigger than the dalgrae's. Possibly.

[les]

Well I'm not going to fault it, I think it's a neat job and pleased to see someone still capable.

[Declan_Burns]

Looks excellent dalgrae-well done.
Regards
Declan