Fitting a 35mm muffler to a 32mm pipe

[SIR REAL ED]

Surreal Ed doesn't read threads before posting, so deserves no response.

That is an accurate statement!   

I usually start reading at the beginning and if I think I can contribute based on questions or information in post # 3, I will chime in after reading post # 3.

Same for after I read post # 6, I will post, and again for post # 8, etc.

If the problem gets solved in post # 12, and my three posts are all redundant BS, so be it.  That's what makes forums fun, at least for me.  I like the half-baked, shoot from the hip, brainstorming format of many forums.  Especially this one.  Great fun to interact with knowledgeable, creative people.  Especially when they turn off their filters.

I hope others do the same on threads I start.

Or I might get yanked away from my computer before getting to post # 12 or the end of the thread, so I don't know the problem was solved before my half-vast wisdom is posted.

Shirley, though, it is good to know great minds think alike! 

Right?   

[Huzo]

Your angry use of profanity

Profanity…?

[DoubleGuzzi]

Profanity…?

You're gonna get struck down by a thunderbolt, Huzo! I know, it's strange what upsets 'muricans yet other phrases/words are acceptable. It sucks. 

[SIR REAL ED]

You're gonna get struck down by a thunderbolt, Huzo! I know, it's strange what upsets 'muricans yet other phrases/words are acceptable. It sucks. 

Yep, it is amazing.  Humor, like all aspects of culture is very localized and time dependent!

I've told dozens of the Furrenners I've worked with that "You will never understand America until you watch the movie My Cousin Vinnie at least 3 times.

I cherish the fact that I was raised in a time and place where if anyone EVER said they were OFFENDED by something another person said, it became an open invitation for everyone who knew that person, and everyone who ever meets that person, to try to pluck at that nerve for the rest of that person's life.

Even at age 4, your grandmother would admonish you with: "Don't get upset! When the other kids pick on you, you say to them: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!"

You rapidly learned, the other half of that game is to NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER give your antagonist the satisfaction of knowing they got your goat!!!  If you did, you lost!

Thanks to all the gruff, nasty old timers who played that game with me when I was a kid!

It was great fun then, and still is now!

Everyone I have ever met over the age of 60 understands the rules of that game!  The yutes, not so much.

The very idea of being offended by the words of another person makes me and everyone I grew up with chuckle!

"Hey Bill, did you hear about Fred?"
"No, what?  Did he die?"
"No! He was on the internet the other day and got offended!"
"NO WAY! Hahahahahahaha!"

Ahhhhh!  The good ole days!

[Huzo]

You're gonna get struck down by a thunderbolt, Huzo! I know, it's strange what upsets 'muricans yet other phrases/words are acceptable. It sucks. 

Sure is…
I’ve gone over every word of my post and if someone can highlight where the profanity is, I’ll own it.

[SIR REAL ED]

Sure is…
I’ve gone over every word of my post and if someone can highlight where the profanity is, I’ll own it.

Just like beauty is ALWAYS in the eye of the beholder, being "offended" is ALWAYS a choice made by the receiver.

The receiver is responsible for their own thoughts, emotions, and interpretations.

How can it be otherwise?

I think it was Dwight Eisenhower's wife who was credited with the quote:  "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent!"

Almost exactly what Gramma taught.

[DoubleGuzzi]

Sure is…
I’ve gone over every word of my post and if someone can highlight where the profanity is, I’ll own it.

Goddammit, Huzo! Don't ya geddit?   

[SIR REAL ED]

Goddammit, Huzo! Don't ya geddit?   

Amen!

If you're not offended, you can't own the offense!!!

[Huzo]

Goddammit, Huzo! Don't ya geddit?   

I do now…
Now.
Back to the V50 pipes.

[moto]

C'mon moto, we need an update on how you got on with the silencer fitting. 

Here is my final update, after putting things aside for a while. I sanded the pipe, inside and out, cut off a 25mm spacer, cut a slot in it, and put (high-temperature) RTV rubber in the resulting gap.









The 1/8" flat brackets needed washers:





The mufflers came out pretty even:





They look good:





The mounting is as solid as OEM, and the sound is surprisingly strong. If I ever run into a nice set of original V50 mufflers I can install them easily since I didn't modify the bike at all.

Thanks to all with suggestions, even of using aluminum foil. I've done that too.

[Tkelly]

Looking good just in time for Stagecoach trail ride tomorrow.

[Bulldog9]

Do some creative engineering with about twenty aluminum beer can walls ...

 

Holy flashback batman............. ... I remember doing this back in High School to get a set of glasspacks to fit on my Skylark. I seem to remember cans being thicker back in the late 70's.

But I think one of the variable diameter reducers is the way to go.

[turboguzzi]

Here is my final update, after putting things aside for a while. I sanded the pipe, inside and out, cut off a 25mm spacer, cut a slot in it, and put (high-temperature) RTV rubber in the resulting gap.

Thanks to all with suggestions, even of using aluminum foil. I've done that too.

Did that kind of adapters on all kinds of projects, last one a NSU Max running a Russian Ish silencer, all still running good :)

my only comment is that doing them on a lathe lets you machine a bigger id step on one end, say 3mm wide collar so when you push the silencer on the adapter doesnt get swallowed into the silencer (with difficult fishing out after...)  dont ask me why im proposing this :)