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I like to build racks by fixing the deck in it's required location in 3D space, and then join the necessary struts to it.
Anyone who has ever built a rack has tried positioning the rack deck using toe straps, shop rags, electrical tape etc, etc (I know that I have). It's a pretty unsatisfactory (speaking for myself) and painstaking way to to do it, you're always checking and re-checking the racks position and level-ness.
A few years ago I came up with this, www.flickr.com/photos/duncancycles/3600946126/in/set-7215...
which worked ok but was time consuming to set up.
This new jig is an idea I've been thinking about for a while, and I finally got a chance to make it. Setting up the position for this test rack deck was much quicker than the old way, only a couple of minutes, so initial impressions are positive.
RD18918. The Schynige Platte Bahn (SPB) is a 4½ mile / 7¼ km long narrow gauge (800mm) rack railway near Interlaken in Canton Bern, Switzerland. It starts at Wilderswil just south of Interlaken and climbs to the station at Schynige Platte which is 6,520ft / 1,987m a.s.l. with gradients up to 1 in 4 (25%).
The line uses ancient electric locomotives which propel the two carriage trains up the gradient although, originally, the trains were worked by 0-4-2RT steam locomotives; one of these is still used on special occasions and for snow clearing in the spring before the electricity can be turned on.
Long before the railway was built visitors to the area would make their way up to Schynige Platte and this is an information panel with photographs and details of both pre and post railway travellers.
Monday, 17th September, 2018. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
How not to ship a 200.000 euro Netapp filer cluster. Minimal padding, harddisks and components still in the rack. No shock absorbing of any kind. I wonder how many disks are broken. Damaged power cable.
When I took my latest rack out of the jig and bolted it to a fork to fit the fork crown stay I discovered that the thing was not even close to level (exhibit A: this picture). I'd been having some trouble adjusting the old fork leg stay jig (a threaded rod brazed to a steel plate with a scribed centerline so I could line it up with the fork jig before clamping it into place) and this time around it fell /wildly/ out of place.
So it was time for a replacement; a section of 8020's smaller sibling, drilled crosswise to press-fit a section of threaded quarter-inch tubing, then drilled front to back to fit a couple of m6 bolts which are locked into place with a pair of brake shoe nuts.
It still needs a little alignment (the m6 bolt is a tiny bit narrower than the slot in the 8020, so I'll need to fabricate a couple of keel pieces to fit between the two chunks of aluminum) and I might want to braze a couple of diagonal braces to keep me from accidentally knocking the stubs of the tubing out of line but even as it is it's much more robust than the stay jigs I was using for the last 70 or so racks that have staggered out of my basement.
Rola nv2 bike rack testing the rack on a Nissan Cube hitch Kinda Low very low in fact, need to mod it.
Homemade rear rack on my old touring bike. Made from 1" x 1/4" hardware store aluminum stock, cut, bent, shaped, drilled, bolted, etc. Finished dimensions of the struts and rails are 1/4" x 15/32" (1" dimension split with a hacksaw). The taillight is Sturmey Archer for Dynohub, mounted in a large reflector.
I love my Surly Nice Rack except for the stupid single light mounting point. None of my four rear blinkies are capable of bolting to it without bodging so I had this cateye one mounted on the seatpost instead. That meant when I had my backpack bungied on the top for riding home from work (late at night) the light was mostly obscured.
I'm trying this home-made hack using a dumpster-dived section of Razor scooter. It won't be appearing in the Rivendell catalogue anytime soon but I don't really care what it looks like on my old commuter as long as it functions well.
I drilled two small holes so I could zip-tie the mounting strap for added security.
After my el cheapo aluminum Axiom Journey rack broke in four welds and sheared one spar, I installed a Tubus Airy. I chose the Airy because it's very strong and light, with Tubus' extender adapter it clears my 700c wheel and fender, and it attaches to the brake bridge. The MMD lacks upper seat stay brazeons.
UP C40-8W's 9442 & 9453 have an auto rack extra crossing the Civil War era stone arch bridge over Turtle Creek at Tiffany, WI.
A rare open auto rack was in a westbound CP freight train at Waterford Ave. The car is loaded with eight Ford F150 pick-up trucks. 5/24/1996
A graffiti writer journeys to a mayan temple to steal a magical spray can that was thought to only exist in myth.
A rare rack of lamb cooked to tender perfection after being gently marinated in garlic and freshly picked rosemary from the local park.
Right view of racked NL-Series nodes: scale-out NAS hardware product. Photo taken May 2013. More information: www.emc.com/storage/isilon/platform-nodes-accelerators.htm
Left view of racked X-Series nodes: scale-out NAS hardware product. Photo taken May 2013. More information: www.emc.com/storage/isilon/platform-nodes-accelerators.htm
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Destined for a Joe Appaloosa, but I'm using the Rosco Bubbe hulk as a form to assemble it. The Vittoria Sturdy tires are basically as big as I can fit into an Appaloosa fork (nominally 2.3", but the knobs bring it out to closer to 2.5" and that's /really/ close to the chainstays & fork blades) so if I can clear them here I can clear basically everything that's put under the target Appaloosa.
Now to do one rack on spec for this Rosco and then I can put all the rackbuilding stuff away for a month or so while I grind my way through the pile of frames+forks I need to make (the emergency randonneuse, the feeling lucky bike that's going to North Carolina, finishing the 3 speed project frame, a front end for the Tarcktruck, a longtail, and forks for a couple of freebie frames I picked up and want to 650bify.)
And, yay?, 99 racks and I didn't lose my mind in the process.