09-21-2014, 07:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-21-2014, 07:50 AM by Hopefuldave.)
An immediately useful dive, for a change...
6 feet of 5/8 x 5" 6061 aluminium, with a pair of bolted on L_____I shaped standoffs, TIG welded beautifully, same material, 21" long. Got home, and was cursing having broken the top-box brackets on my Givi pannier Wingrack (on my "touring" bike), £40 the pair and out of stock both in the online shop and the importers, tripped over the aluminium I'd scrounged and thought "No, couldn't be, my luck's not that good!" but one of the standoffs is a perfect fit to the mounting points once I slip a washer in between each side, puts the top-box exactly where I want it! Eight holes drilled and counterbored, a few stainless bolts from just up the road, and I can carry my camping gear again, even the airbed and pump, and still have room for a bottle of single malt
We have a healthy recycling / reuse policy and a Top Quality skip (classed as "mixed metals", so we almost have to pay to get things taken away!) at work, had I the transport and somewhere to put I could have had lots of electronic test gear (obsolete, "Beyond Economic Repair" etc.), through medical LASERs and optical components to one of the sturdiest workbenches I've seen in a long time - an Optical Table, 1" thick ground steel top tapped M6 on a 25mm grid, sat on 4" box section legs, Well Braced, too - at 6 x 4 ft it wasn't going in the bike panniers, though...
6 feet of 5/8 x 5" 6061 aluminium, with a pair of bolted on L_____I shaped standoffs, TIG welded beautifully, same material, 21" long. Got home, and was cursing having broken the top-box brackets on my Givi pannier Wingrack (on my "touring" bike), £40 the pair and out of stock both in the online shop and the importers, tripped over the aluminium I'd scrounged and thought "No, couldn't be, my luck's not that good!" but one of the standoffs is a perfect fit to the mounting points once I slip a washer in between each side, puts the top-box exactly where I want it! Eight holes drilled and counterbored, a few stainless bolts from just up the road, and I can carry my camping gear again, even the airbed and pump, and still have room for a bottle of single malt
We have a healthy recycling / reuse policy and a Top Quality skip (classed as "mixed metals", so we almost have to pay to get things taken away!) at work, had I the transport and somewhere to put I could have had lots of electronic test gear (obsolete, "Beyond Economic Repair" etc.), through medical LASERs and optical components to one of the sturdiest workbenches I've seen in a long time - an Optical Table, 1" thick ground steel top tapped M6 on a 25mm grid, sat on 4" box section legs, Well Braced, too - at 6 x 4 ft it wasn't going in the bike panniers, though...
Rules are for the obedience of fools, and the guidance of wise men...
(Douglas Bader)
(Douglas Bader)