Measure twice, cut once! IDIOT,

[pete roper]

Finally got around to sticking my new forks in today. Since the legs off the wreck were bent I'd transferred the lowers into my old Mana legs and got Laurie to swap the brake carrier castings from the G legs to the Mana legs. Now I reckoned I'd measured everything right but when I got the Mana legs in I found that what Id failed to notice is the GRiSO uppers are waisted and the Mana's aren't! IDIOT! Its only a couple of mm but its the sort of stupid first year apprentice mistake I hate making!

Never mind, I'll get Laurie to make me up a couple of shims. While I'm at it I can get him to make a couple for my Ohlins too so I can do a comparison between the Matris and Ohlins set ups.

Pete

[chuck peterson]

Have you tried cutting it again?

[charlie b]

Yep, always cut to fit...and when you cut too much then you get to use the lathe or milling machine to make the spacers.  Then you have to machine the spacers too small at least once.  That's how the lathe/mill knows that you like it, cause you keep making the same part over and over.  :)

[cloudbase]

Do it the way the professionals do.  I observed this at Bender Shipyard in Mobile Alabama.

1.  Cut to size.

2.  Pound with hammer to fit.

3.  Paint to match.

[RinkRat II]

 Yessir, best advice I once got from my grandmothers sisters uncles son was  "No matter how much you cut off,It'll still be too short"

    Paul B

[oldbike54]

 I am heartbroken to learn that my belief in Pete's infallibility was misplaced , are there no heroes anymore ?

 My grandfather would say "If you aren't making mistakes , you aren't doing anything" . Probably still true .

 Dusty

[yogidozer]

could be worse, if you were a surgeon 

[Jim Rich]

Do it the way the professionals do.  I observed this at Bender Shipyard in Mobile Alabama.

1.  Cut to size.

2.  Pound with hammer to fit.

3.  Paint to match.

I used to work with an ex-Harley engineer.  He told me that was the way things were done there. 

[rodekyll]

I am heartbroken to learn that my belief in Pete's infallibility was misplaced , are there no heroes anymore ?

[snip]

 Dusty

I shall restore your faith, my sonny.  Observe that the title of the topic was "measure twice cut once".  Observe that in no place does the OP mention having ever measured anything once, much less twice.  Therefore the measuring of infallibility remains as illusive as ever.   

[oldbike54]

I shall restore your faith, my sonny.  Observe that the title of the topic was "measure twice cut once".  Observe that in no place does the OP mention having ever measured anything once, much less twice.  Therefore the measuring of infallibility remains as illusive as ever.   

 I just figured there was having difficulty remembering whether he was working in the old English system or the Metric system . Let's see , 26 MM = an inch , but how many beard seconds in a
furlong 

 Dusty

[Muzz]

"I cut it three times and it was still too short".

Sounds as though it was more SABU than GAFU.

[twowings]

Anytime I grab a tool is a new lesson in humility...