HPE - Heggs Performance Engineering

Fig 1.1 Fig 1.2. Welding is a trade all in itself, however; armed with MIG and TIG welders  we get this job done in house along side everything else. A common job that comes in is damage to motorcycles, either from crashing or the engine taking lumps out of itself. More often than not this ends up being an aluminium weld such as this paddock stand bobbin (see fig 1.2) that got ripped off of a customers Honda CBR600RR in a spill. This is a fairly quick and simple weld on paper but the prep is what takes all of the work. There were holes in the swing arm where the base metal failed rather than the weld and the edges were turned up and bent. To add to the fun there was a few years worth of chain lube and road grot ingrained in the metal so a thorough clean was needed too. Once the prep was all done, now came the task of marrying a small but thick bobbin mount to a thin but large swingarm. Thankfully pulse mode on the Rtech digital tig 170 was here to save the day which made sh...

1.1 Mighty small handle 3D drawing. Contents A)    Intro - About the mighty small handle B)   Fitting guide A)   Intro - About the mighty small handle 1.1 HPE Folding Tool kit handle CP PETg After the success of our folding tool kit handles, we decided we needed to go bigger, by going smaller.    The idea was pretty simple; make a handle for smaller shadow foam shelves that could be removed from  from a larger kit  to enable small items to be brought closer to the work area whilst still keeping things organised.  Design Key elements were: They have to be very compact. Light weight. Be easy to use. be strong enough to support a wide range of tools. fig 2.2 testing After some testing a final design was chosen with a base size taking up 40mm X 15mm of space each. Not bad at all! Stress testing was carried out till we ran out of things to hand off of our test handle, ending up with an  8kg per handle load,  a FoS (Factor of S...