[report] ACSS Manufacturing

[Arnaud]

Here is the brief report abut the ACSS manufacturing

1 - first step : buying all components. Fortunately I found a web site where I can buy online screws, nuts, tapped rods, ... (all stainless steel ) Springs supplied by Rabourdin.
For aluminium rods, it's much more complicated ... sometime I find the rod in a shop, sometime on ebay, depending of availability

2 - cutting the aluminium components. I use my wood machine with a specific blade to cut aluminium parts

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then I make a little champfer on the L bracket.

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First component : aluminium nipple

3 - First champfer on the aluminium nipple, with a mini-lathe

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4 - Drilling the D4.2 hole across the nipple with a drilling / miling machine. I use a steel mounting to drill through the axis

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5 - Back to the lathe to drill the D5 axial hole and make the second champfer

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6 - Manual tapping M6 (one of the longest operation !)

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Second component : aluminium bracket

7 - Drilling a D8 hole

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8 - Then milling of the oblong hole with a D9 mill

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9 - Drilling of the D3.3 holes for M4 tapping

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Then tapping the holes

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and mounting the screws

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10 - Sanding the bracket to fillet the corners.

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11- Final assembly. The rod is glued to the nipple

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A batch ready for shipping .....

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[Abrax]

Beautiful!

Hand made with precision, just as mine...

[frenchjap]

les pièces ACSS sont-elles livrées avec un plan d'installation. genre à quelle hauteur sur la chaussure ont fait les 2 trous. quoi faire comme modification préalable sur la chaussure avant de mettre l'ACSS. bref un bon mode d'emploi.

merci d'avance pour la réponse

françois

[Arnaud]

ACSS mounting download available here :

Head Stratos boots
- english :

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UPZ boots
- english :

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- deutsch :

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und video :

[vizsyn]

WOW!

This is pretty awesome to see how the ACSS is actually made. I've already done the necessary modifications to my boots, all I have left is to drill the holes to mount the angle brackets.

@Arnaud
Thank you for shipping out the ACSS kit. Hopefully they'll make a fast trip across the Atlantic to the US!!!