Thumper Club Forum
Technical => Project Progress => Topic started by: squirrelciv on August 04, 2007, 08:41:52 AM
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(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e177/squirrelciv/latestproject.jpg)
Latest project for Dolly. Marks will be awarded for comedy value :-)
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Hey a window box for Dolly - currently being soak tested on the shed.
in the foreground some filing trays
R
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Goodness,hes making hard panniers for it.Sorry HER !
More like Tupper Ware....methinks !
Jethro
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Well done 002, the Acme-squirrel self assembly pannier kit project is underway :-) Had a contact from work cut/bend the ali sheet and I've bought some angle from CG rees. Add some stolen screws & whiz tights and hey presto home made panniers :-)
So far I've joined the two halves together to form the sides and am off to get a desent mitre block to cut my angle edging. Will post more piccies as things develop, cheers.
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Pat,
I would be interested in more details of this as I would like to fit some solid panniers to the Norton
Bruce
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Mmm now we were asked for humour - it seems pretty obvious they are to be panniers - where are the jokes? I was expecting more of you all.
I have a set of Craven panniers about here somewhere with about 10 years worth of IoM TT stickers from the 70's. Can never decide what to put them on - but did think if I ever get another CG amybe a full dress CG with the panniers and a similar top box?
R
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Pat,
I would be interested in more details of this as I would like to fit some solid panniers to the Norton
Bruce
Hi Bruce I'll tell more once I've figured out what I'm doing. Winging it a bit and my design is developing as I find the pit falls. Never was good at thinking ahead :-)
Will post more later.
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GUess you could take a look at some of the metal box panniers that are about for inspiration - although I have seen ex-service ammo boxes and the like used too - waterproof if not a little heavy. ANy ideas about the frames and the fixings?
R
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Already have the frames on the bike. I made them earlier in the year with the help of SteveH who did the welding. As for fixings, I'm going 'simple' as it fits my mentality and the panniers will bolt directly to the frame at 3 points. I plan to pass the bolt through the pannier from the inside out and lock it in place with two nuts which will act as spacers between pannier and frame.(something that's required cos when I made the frames I made them 10mm too narrow to clear the indicators. Oops) this should allow me to pass the remaining bolt through the frame and secure with a nylock nut.
The bit I'm puzzled by at the moment is how to fix the lid without welding. If I hinge them with the bolts poking out then the nuts could be undone, if I go the other way then the nuts will foul the box :-? Heyho, the fun of being an inventor.
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Perhaps you could use pop riviets or similar
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pop or ordinary rivets. Can you get snap off bolts in the size you want? - mind a bugger to undo. Standard nuts trim off surplus and centre pop - reduces chances of being undone, ditto but with super glue or araldite. Dome nuts on the inside. Turn some standard nuts down on a lathe until a snap on tools surface drive socket will grip but not a standard spanner. Glue.
For sealing them http://www.polymax.co.uk/ (http://www.polymax.co.uk/) do nitrex and silicone section that could do the job - but they have a minimum order of £10. However I have a couple of quids worth I want from them so maybe we could team up if you want some section.
R
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I cant see for the life of me how youre going to fit that work bench onto the back of Dolly unless you have a side car frame lurking about as well !!!!
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He is using some old stabalisers knicked off some 4 year old's bike that he is using as castors, a bit of rope and two bent nails as a tow hitch and he will be tugging it behaind DOlly as a trailer. However there is still the issue of the effects of gravity and momentum on the bench Vs Dollys output abd brakes to be overcome.
R
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i actually think you are transforming it into the delorian so you can go back to the future......
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yup...got it! it's a 'record' vice, as used by woodworkers
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Finished ;D
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e177/squirrelciv/Dolly/pannierssideon.jpg)
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e177/squirrelciv/Dolly/panniersrear.jpg)
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e177/squirrelciv/Dolly/panniertop.jpg)
Quite convinced the paint won't last, but that will add to the character. Next job is load them up for the weekend trip back to Dent ;D
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LOOKING GOOD PAT
I LIKE THE IDEA OF THE LIFTING EYES,MUST MAKE IT A LOT EASIER TO TAKE THE BACK WHEEL OFF.
PS CHECK IS IN THE POST,HAVE A GOOD TRIP TO DENT.
REGARDS
ALAN
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Most Impressive can you please if you have time post some details etc re the making of these panniers Thank You Bruce
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Hmmm...
Will it fit through the toll booths on the Severn Bridge ;)
Good effort that man, very nice job.
GC
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Hmmm...
Will it fit through the toll booths on the Severn Bridge ;)
LOL! Only just! Actually they are only 2" wider than the handlebars. Loaded and ready for Dent now and looking like a Chinese basket sellers moped! Thought I was getting carried away when I strapped the BBQ on :o
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Congratulations, I think they look fantastic - love the industrial look ;)
Hope you will be showing the beauties at Stafford?
Andy
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They should also make good floatation aids should it rain heavily.
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Is that a mobile soup kitchen ????
Jethro
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Final update on this.......
......I don't like them >:( ! Too much movement and too much wieght behind the wheel spindle! Plus fuel consumption dropped from 170 miles per tank to under 150 which very nearly caught me out.
The support rack needs a drastic re-design and after all's said and done I prefer my soft panniers. My new mission (which may take some time/money) is to cut down my camping kit to the lightest/smallest set I can and make a new carry rack to haul it all.
Heyho, trial and error hey ::)
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Pat,
If your going to Stafford bring them with you if you can I might make an offer for them
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I have a Mk1 Pheonix Phoxhole that I hafve usewd as minimal kit for rallies - have even slept 2 in it once or twice. Have only been run over in it a couple of times and it has been run over empty another couple - warning do not go too small on the tent!!!
Had a friend who did rallies with just a bivvi bag - was fine until he left his keys in the bike and we rode around the field with him still in the bivvi attached to the bike.
Mind I do like the idea of a tarp and a hammock. Jack Wolfskin used to do a real nice triangular tarp tent - I am sure many others do too.
R
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Last weekend Jethro and I attended a mutual chum's party on his farm near Crumlin (site of the Carrick headwetting TC bash).
I bivvi'd in my luuuurvely Terra Nova single hoop bag and Jethro had a neat arrangment with his poncho spread as a basha between his bike and the fence and his army Bivvi bag.
It's safe to say we were the most minimal of campers in that field by far, but the joy of waking up to the view was worth it.
I capped it off with breakfast and coffee cooked on my Svea 123, my favourite petrol stove:
(http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/mitsuyoshi/cabinet/123r-optimus.jpg)
Cheers
GC
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Is that Crumlin as just over the hill from me?
R
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Pat,
If your going to Stafford bring them with you if you can I might make an offer for them
Sorry matey I'm not going to Stafford but if you're passing this way (Cardiff/Bridgend) pop in and make me an offer. ;)
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Is that Crumlin as just over the hill from me?
R
No. Closest big town is Ebbw Vale.
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Ahhh - many places same name. It has to be said though that Ebbw Vale makes PT look good.
R