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...

  1.1 Tool kit corner protector 30mm Fitting our tool kit layer corner protectors is easy, adding protection to the foam and assisting in layer stacking. Here we will walk you through how to fit them. However we will start a little before that just in case you are reading this whilst trying to decide what to buy. We have also peppered in a few suggestions on where to find items you will need with links or suggested brands in  orange . Considerations before buying You are going to need to know  what things you intend to put in this container  (tools)  and how deep the foam will need to be for those things to sit flat.  Once you know this, you can workout a rough layout and figure out what size container is best for you (don't forget to leave room for the handles , factor in backing material and any protrusions). You will probably bounce around these tasks a bit as you pick suitable tool boxes then seeing how you could reorganise your tools to make best...

1.1 HPE tool kit shadow foam layer handles Contents A)    Intro - About the Folding tool kit handles B)   Fitting guide A)   Intro -  About the Folding tool kit handles Fitting our tool kit handles is easy and adds a really professional look to your shadow foamed tool kit layers. 1.2 20mm base plate Here we will walk you through how to fit them. However we will start a little before that just in case you are reading this whilst trying to decide what to buy. We have also peppered in a few suggestions on where to find items you will need with links or suggested brands in orange . Considerations before buying You are going to need to know  what things  (tools)  you intend to put in this container and how deep the foam will need to be for those things to sit flat. Remember, different depth foam requires different length base plates. fig 2.1 20,30,50mm base plates Different foam colours can be used to help tool organisation. You may want...

  Pelicase have an endless assortment of cases and ideas for how you could use them 1.1 The need to build a tool kit has resulted in an over engineered answer to a problem normally answered with some webbing and a couple of rivets. But you want some too. Portability and relative light weight was leading us down the root of a Peli case based kit with foam shelves for convenience and easy tool control (very important in the aerospace industry where the kit will be used) just like the examples in fig 1.1.  Of course we are not the first people to want to use foam shelves in a Peli case and as such there are a number of ideas out there for what to do. These are generally consisting of : Tool foam comes in many shapes & colours 1.2 Cut outs in the foam Webbing straps Fold out shelves running a slim case with foam on the base and lid. These are all fine but we thought we could come up with something a bit more elegant. The design brief was simple: They needed to be strong enoug...