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As you’ll know, the W/NG has worn a small non-standard baggage rack for a few years – most likely because the 1950’s and whereas I’m sorry to depart from the modifications the earlier proprietor made all these years in the past, I’ve just lately misplaced my Chilly espresso flask and at present my Rothenburger Surefire blow torch off the again of it, via not having sufficiently big luggage.
What I’ve determined to do is splash out on a set of copy army panniers and frames, that are available and doubtless come from India. You may’t purchase the rack, so I will make that myself as many others have finished earlier than me. These dimensions have been recorded by fellow Arielist Vincent van Ginneke of the Dutch department of the AOMCC and posted on the discussion board:
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Since I haven’t got a tube bender, and most industrial benders haven’t got the suitable measurement dies anyway, I’m going to make use of spherical bar for the provider – just like the one in Vincent’s footage. Others you see are comprised of tube which is lighter and simpler to swage for the ends however would want a bender to kind the corners with out flattening.
The trusty little bit of scaffold tube involves the fore once more for the bends on the rear finish. I make the bends in each the 2 major members – I plan to place a weld within the center, relatively than attempt to kind it up from one piece. I’ve truly purchased 4 1 metre lengths of spherical bar.
This subsequent image reveals the 2 major members clamped in a little bit of angle to maintain them aligned whereas I make the 40° bend, in order that I can match the 2 sides:
The ends of the primary members match between the body and the mudguard keep, right here:
Swaging the ends is a bit difficult. They might have been made scorching with an influence hammer, giving them that neat ‘one hit’ look in Vincent’s footage – I can get them scorching sufficient, however attempting to make that form with a gig ball pein hammer simply does not work. Time to strive one thing else.
What I am doing is constructing the perimeters up with weld, after slicing the flats with a hacksaw. It is a bit time consuming and relatively obsessive, however a session with the angle grinder will make them look the half:
Quickly I’ve all of the bits I would like prepared for tacking up. I’ve welded the 2 halves of the primary provider along with the welder set to 100 A – larger than required because it turned out however the off grid system managed it simply in daytime:
With the entrance drilled and fitted, I exploit a cardboard field and an digital stage to set it in the suitable place. I am placing one of many cross bars in right here to verify the spindly legs are lined up correctly and the bends are in the suitable aircraft:
The 2 brief facet legs go in subsequent, with the angle of the flattened tab adjusted to sit down flat on the mudguard keep:
Subsequent, I match the lengthy legs up from the rear wheel spindle, wire them in place and tack:
Right here it’s, with all the weather tacked collectively bar the small body brackets which I’ll make subsequent. Sadly, I’ve run out of Argon…
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