SV650 - Lasercutting, it makes my life easier.

With the entire design process for the swingarm done in CAD, it made sense for us to design the jig alongside it on the computer screen. 

I seem to remember very well spending weeks making the previous jig for the frame and didn't want to endure the same kind of timescale with the swingarm jig. So to avoid this, a very simple structure was designed which could be easily manufactured, consisting of lasercut steel plates, box section steel, stainless steel tie bars and aluminium bosses. 

The key to this simplicity is having the fully designed part and opting for lasercut plates. This means we could send them out, have them cut very accurately with no post processing required and when they return, simply fit them together. The steel box section acts as cross members which are welded in place to make the jig solid and space everything out. Then come the tie bars and aluminium boss, which locate the main fixing points on the swingarm.

Two weeks after sending drawings out, we received the lasercut parts.

Half an hour to cut some steel box section to length and then a few hours to make up some stainless tie bars and everything is mocked up loosely. 

That's as far as we got with it today, all that needs to be done now is to machine the aluminium bosses and weld the box section in place and the jig is good to go.

 Lasercutting, it makes my life easier!