swankstar
SILVER Star
A little project to welcome my weekend. Met up with some other Cruiser owners this week and saw a couple cool gizmos I thought I'd try. Thanks to @Cruzilla for this one!
Yesterday, I stopped by the scrap yard and lo and behold, there was the exact style/size of stainless kitchen shelving Cruzilla had used to make his sweet shelf. I had like what I saw so I was already on the lookout for one. Turns out the scrapyard only wanted about treefiddy for it, so I was happily on my way.
Yanked the rear handles off, measured up the hole distance, drew up a quick model, and cut one out of super thin material to give it a try.
Had to try it a couple time because I got the holes about 1/8 off, and then forgot to save the file correctly (I guess that's what I get for doing stuff after work on a friday...)
After a couple attempts, got it right and it went right in there. As I was sliding things around and fitting them up, I started to worry a little about the potential noise level I just introduced to my rig. Once I got everything locked in place though and went for a drive around the block, I didn't notice a thing. Pretty stoked! Next up will be making a little "crescent moon" piece for the front of it so sudden stops don't send anything flying. The reality of the situation though is it will be storage for when actually camped, not for driving around.
Very stoked I did this. Needed a quick project to get me going again!
Yesterday, I stopped by the scrap yard and lo and behold, there was the exact style/size of stainless kitchen shelving Cruzilla had used to make his sweet shelf. I had like what I saw so I was already on the lookout for one. Turns out the scrapyard only wanted about treefiddy for it, so I was happily on my way.
Yanked the rear handles off, measured up the hole distance, drew up a quick model, and cut one out of super thin material to give it a try.
Had to try it a couple time because I got the holes about 1/8 off, and then forgot to save the file correctly (I guess that's what I get for doing stuff after work on a friday...)
After a couple attempts, got it right and it went right in there. As I was sliding things around and fitting them up, I started to worry a little about the potential noise level I just introduced to my rig. Once I got everything locked in place though and went for a drive around the block, I didn't notice a thing. Pretty stoked! Next up will be making a little "crescent moon" piece for the front of it so sudden stops don't send anything flying. The reality of the situation though is it will be storage for when actually camped, not for driving around.
Very stoked I did this. Needed a quick project to get me going again!
