I finally decided to finish the forks, I had tripped over them once too often.
But I now thought that I should enclose the channel. So I put an additional rib in the thinner part and covered it over with a 5
mm thick flat stock. It was not as hard to take it around the bend as I thought it might be. It had a tendency to twist a bit, but a hammer on red steel straightens things out, or at least conforms it.
After trimming the tips and a bit of grinding they really are looking like forks.
Then I used a hole saw to
cut the a space for the pipe on which the fork will hang and welded in the piece of pipe. I plan on a 35
mm mild steel bar that the forks will hang on. When the forks themselves were done, the project stalled for a couple of weeks. But I counted up my "mad money" and decided that I finally had enough to get a lathe--I have wanted one for like forever and the exchange rate for the dollar has jumped up for us. So maybe the time was right.
The one that I finally decided on was not going to be man-handled, but requires something more stout. Maybe finish the forks huh? I ordered the lathe and headed for the garage to finish them up.
Mike