Vee Twin Autococker

[DocsMachine]

Yep, I'm not sure even Palmer's tried a single-center feed with his over-under Nastys.

And on a 'Cocker, the barrels must necessarily be at least 1" center-to-center simply due to the barrel diameter. The bottom barrel would feed fine, but the nex6t ball in the stack would fall between the bores, with a partially-fed third above that. It couldn't help but chop.

I understand Ken's "Peacemakers" have a sort of detent in between to keep that from happening, but I'm not sure that could be used here.

It'll have separate side right and left feed necks.

Doc.

[Chuck E Ducky]

Bolts look to far apart to be single feed. Don’t they? I feel like you would need them to sit as close as possible so it don’t clip. I’m assuming separate right and a left Vert feeds.

[XEMON]

The existential question is: Single top feed or dual offset feed?

[DocsMachine]

I wish I had a fresh update for you ladies and gents- and whatever Mar is- but I've been absolutely slammed, and it looks like I probably will be for the rest of the week.

So, in lieu of a proper update, I'll let you in on something I've been tinkering with along with the rest, ever since Ecap- a curse be upon his name- mentioned it back at the beginning of the month.



Will it work? We're gonna find out.

Doc.

[DocsMachine]

Doc did you ever think your Vee Twins would take off like this YEARS after you put them out?

-I will admit to being quite surprised. I can't count the number of times I've gotten emails from people that saw one of the pics online, and who then ghosted once they found out the price. Especially the couple of years after the '08 recession- hey, really nice 'Cockers were going for, like $200, so a complete VT should be, like, $300, right?

But, like everything in this game, it all goes in cycles.

Doc.

[BrickHaus]

Doc did you ever think your Vee Twins would take off like this YEARS after you put them out?

If I hit the lotto or something, ill be hitting ya up for one of these.. orrr If I won enough, Id be figuring out how much it would cost to get you to build a duke.

Love your work man.

[DocsMachine]

I've sent another email, but hadn't heard back if you got it. Can you email me the same build info as you sent the rest of the guys?

-Oops, sorry. I used the same subject line in all the mails I sent out, and I thought yours was one I'd already replied to. I'll get you a little more detail shortly, but quick and dirty answer- yes, it's all possible.

Doc.

[DocsMachine]

Progress! Although still a bit behind where I'd hoped to be, but not critically so.

Wasn't able to do much this weekend, but I did complete all the bolt-bore drilling and reaming, which is one of the single most time consuming steps, at least after the basic raw shaping.

Drilled...



Drilled some more....



And then reamed!



I know that reamed bore looks scratchy, but that's just a trick of the light. They're very smooth, and of course they'll get a quick hone later.

And there they are are, all eight current blanks. (One's mine, unless somebody else wants to join in the fun. )



I've got a couple hot jobs to kick out the door this week, and I'll have to break down the drilling jig to finish those. So after they're all done, I'll probably finish up the profiling and do some backblock work, before setting it back up and finishing off the valve-tube bores.

Stand by!

Doc.

[SETHZILLA!]

Got most of the preliminary drilling done, so at this point the bolt bores just need to be finish-reamed.



Which means it's time to do more milling.

I sent emails to everyone on the list, though for a few of you, I only have the email from PayPal. Basically just want to nail down a couple details- in a couple cases, it wasn't explicitly specified if you wanted a full size or a mini body, and for some of you that wanted pump kits, whether or not you also wanted a semi frontblock, etc.

If you could check that and get back to me, especially if I have something wrong or forgot something, I'd appreciate it.

Doc.

I've sent another email, but hadn't heard back if you got it. Can you email me the same build info as you sent the rest of the guys?

Or possibly check your spam folder to see if mine ended up in there?

[superman]

Simon has it and displays it at events. It tends to draw people in.

[DocsMachine]

Got most of the preliminary drilling done, so at this point the bolt bores just need to be finish-reamed.



Which means it's time to do more milling.

I sent emails to everyone on the list, though for a few of you, I only have the email from PayPal. Basically just want to nail down a couple details- in a couple cases, it wasn't explicitly specified if you wanted a full size or a mini body, and for some of you that wanted pump kits, whether or not you also wanted a semi frontblock, etc.

If you could check that and get back to me, especially if I have something wrong or forgot something, I'd appreciate it.

Doc.

[DocsMachine]

Last message I got from you was on the 6th, just acknowledging the receipt of the pics. Nothing after that.

Doc.

[SETHZILLA!]

Had to spend most of this week working on other clients' work. This isn't the only thing on my tables, by a fair shot.

Hey Doc, just a quick followup with you on here. I sent you my idea for my V-Twin via regular Email. Let me know if you got it and your thoughts about my vision.

-Sethzilla!

Sent from my SM-G970U1 using Tapatalk

[DocsMachine]

Had to spend most of this week working on other clients' work. This isn't the only thing on my tables, by a fair shot.

But, I got in more tooling today and yesterday, including material for the bolts, bolt pins and valves, better drill bits, and a way to hold those better drill bits.

Should be able to punch quite a bit out on Saturday, but I'm gonna tell you right now, don't expect much out of me on Sunday.

Doc.

[Lt. head-shot]

I got all the rest of my parts in to go with this build, and am about to sell my Scout to fund the second half of this sweet double barrel goodness!