Sometimes they'll make more swag for special occasions. bikes.se is probably a bit small for that. Although they did send me some t-shirts and water bottles when we did a stack exchange volunteer group for a local bike event.
It's peak wildflower season right now, been going on some great hikes
13:31 < dioz> can someone tell me how to drive a car without a car? 13:31 < Criggie> dioz: just strap two bicycles together, and make BRUM BRUM noises with your mouth
I wonder if you could cut the uprights off the cart, replace them with wood, then hinge the front and back side of the box so they folded down to stabilizing legs
you might be able to purge a lot of the slop by tying/bungee'ing the horizontal 4x2 to the front of the trailer, that way a lot of the trailer-part slop will get taken up.
The floor is solid 18mm customwood... could put a post down to that.
makes it much harder to remove though
That bike frame is just some load of crap I had as a test
@Mσᶎ I like your idea - a triangle brace consisting of a leg down to the floor, and a brace forward should help. I'll try a G clamp to hold it to the main beam, to allow it to be undo-able.
Well other than the trailer itself, the only thing I have had to buy was the hinge.
Everything else is laying about the shed.
I used to work in a place that shared a staff carpark with a Briscoes, so used to snag the good pallets when they came through. Got some loverly crap mahogany out of one, and plenty of usable white pine lengths.
bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/38024/… seriously? The one line answer gets upvoted, my detailed answer gets an upvoted comment that raises a misleading-to-wrong objection.
now I'm in this world of trying to briefly explain why jim is wrong, without going into a 2000-word explanation of the history of framebuilding and headsets.
I think my new motto is "if you find yourself wanting to use a hammer on a bike, you're doing something wrong"
Hammers are something that professional mechanics use, backed up by a shop willing to replace the bike if they make a mistake. And except for on a headset removal tool, I can't think of a normal use case. The rest are "all else failed, try hitting it before we throw the bike away"
I like using long threadded rod with nuts, and some pieces of 20mm customwood, with a steel face on one side. Can make all sorts of press things like that
@Mσᶎ Same for heat - if you're using a burner then its a last-resort before scrapping the part.
In my sort-of-scrap steel bits box are a few chunks of 6mm-10mm flat with holes in them, which I use the same way. Visiting the local steel fabricators and going "can I buy bits out of your recycling bin for scrap prices" is often rewarding :)
@Criggie yep. Like ynnekkram's frame... 'tis trashed, so hitting it with a wleder isn't going to make it any worse, and you might get another 6 months out of the frame if you weld it... if you have a wleder. Probably not worth paying someone to do that, though
@Criggie I wouldn't, I'd be just blobbing it up and saying "months, not years". There's a point where you're basically build a new frame munged onto the back of the existing one.
