Geophy Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 1 hour ago, kyteler said: It's cool man but I reckon you could set the horizontals up so it sits above the towball that way you could tow a trailer as well as have that on, for extra load carrying awesomeness! Like this __/¯¯ Also put some gussets under the section below the mesh platform. Also also, if you laid the mesh on top and ran the slide ins through the centre of the box you could weld some angle on the bottom that you stow two lengths of smaller box that you could use as a ramp for pushing them up. Some good thoughts there but if its scraping with just the rack on then to get it high enough to have a trailer on and it not hit the rack it would be about the height of the bottom of the tail light, fouling the rear door when opening. Also welding them as so ___,------- is not as strong as a straight piece of box section and while it may not make much of a difference its piece of mind when thats all thats holding your bike there. The idea behind having the mesh in the bottom is that it creates a handy little place to store smelly dirty things that you dont want in your truck eg petrol, firewood, oil and the box section acts as a lip allowing for shit tying down efforts to said items. Also having the horiziontals underneath as you can see they go under where the wheels of the bike go so the weight is not actually resting on the mesh frame but on the horiziontals. Having the horiziontals running through the box section would be weaker as the weight is no longer being supported by the steel it is supported by the weld. All this is just my opinion I tried to make it as strong as possible and engineer it in a way so the weight is supported by steel not welds. Would rather is went overkill and could carry heaps of weight then it break because it was too hard to lift your bikes front wheel. I beleive he is using a piece of wood as a ramp atm. Cheers 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Mitred corners Mmm yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geophy Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Wow im turning into a ranter many apologys 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 3 minutes ago, Geophy said: Also welding them as so ___,------- is not as strong as a straight piece of box section OMS did mention gussets between lower and upper horizontals. No, you're not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 I can put a doodle together of what I mean, there's no way you should break it if it's how it is in my head and it shouldn't be any less strong than it it now and would potentially be stronger. It would be no different than running a goose-neck on a trailer except you could add a gusset for extra reinforcement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 If you need to tow a trailer, put bike in trailer, problem solved. That storage looks sweet! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tortron Posted April 2, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 2, 2018 These 100kg caster wheels just don't cope with my gate Nothing really available that I could find that would be an improvement. So this freaking unit was cobbled together from a trailer jockey wheel and some rectangular box section Fully height adjustable and I can make the gate lay frame to remove the wheel for easy servicing. Plus I like to be able to "raise the drawbridge" if I don't want anyone getting in. Haha 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris r Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 On 28/03/2018 at 21:19, GuyWithAviators said: It scrapes on driveways and parallel parking anywhere is impossible unless I have two empty spaces. Son like driving my van then lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tortron Posted April 7, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 7, 2018 Re: mouse trap Barry's 19 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muncie Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 How's that wired ?? Wonder how many watts a mouse draws under load. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 They are quite a slow burn fuse in my experience. Unless the ankles blow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63Ragtop Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 Shocking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostchips Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 On 4/8/2018 at 07:47, tortron said: Re: mouse trap Barry's i thought brown was the phase & black was the neutral? (Why i'm not an electrician) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threeonthetree Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 That is an american cable. Neutral is white and phase/live is black. The earth is bare. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoKer Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 and 120 of them volts things, brutal! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 I don't know why...but I like that mouse trap! Guess it's hard to feel empathy for something as annoying as rodents. Sentence them all to the electric chair!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpochNZ Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 This thread needs a video of that trap in action... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Gruntfuttock Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 I see a problem. Either a mouse on fire will scuttle under flammable crap, or burning mouse parts will be thrown into flammable crap. Workshop burns down either scenario. Also prob lethal to kids etc. Still want video... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post a.craw4d Posted May 2, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 2, 2018 Got this little fellow hiding in my garden. Gets around a bit. It's for a customer, I've just been holding on to it till it's nicely weathered. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bluebear01 Posted May 2, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 2, 2018 I suck at buying good birthday presents for the wife, so I slapped together a drum kit for her using sockets, welding wire & frost plugs. Kinda messy but she liked it, sorted! 47 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.