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Joel
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Joel wrote:
> Joel wrote:
>> Curtis L. Russell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:17:45 -0500, Joel <joelw135atcomcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I might have to do this myself as most of the machine shops I
>>>> contacted have a minimum rate, which makes it cost ineffective. The
>>>> bit will be self centering as there is already a hole, so if I mount
>>>> the bracket on a 2X4 and clamp it down and then take it slow. I
>>>> should be OK.
>>>
>>> You can always check with a college or high school. The University of
>>> Maryland evidently has a shop with a lot of equipment available - I've
>>> had two different students do work, one a bike, one a custome piece of
>>> furniture.
>>>
>>> And one high school, after the shop guy said they had the tools and a
>>> really good kid at what I needed to have done. Something added to a
>>> 4x8 trailer for the bike racks.
>>>
>>> Total cost? All of it was actually free, other than materials. The
>>> frame builder at Proteus thought the bike work was pretty well done
>>> (only part of it I remember was a precision drilling through a curved
>>> fork crown on a track bike, and some other stuff that is no longer in
>>> the memory bank - think it was something to do with the rear cutouts).
>>>
>>> Curtis L. Russell
>>> Odenton, MD (USA)
>>> Just someone on two wheels...
>>
>> I will check the local vocational school, but up to 9011 it was easy
>> getting into the shop to talk to the instructor, but now you can't get
>> passed the front gate.
>
> As of today the mount has not shipped from ICE, but the new whip showed
> up yesterday, and it is constructed real nice. The coupling in the
> center is made of metal and the whip itself is a bright yellow/green
> that is fluorescent. I will send an email to ICE to find out what the
> holdup is.
According to John at ICE the mount should be delivered to them by lunch
today. He also informed me that he drilled out the mount for me to
6.6mm, which saves me th problem of doing it myself. I am looking
forward to getting this done.
Joel
> Joel wrote:
>> Curtis L. Russell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:17:45 -0500, Joel <joelw135atcomcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I might have to do this myself as most of the machine shops I
>>>> contacted have a minimum rate, which makes it cost ineffective. The
>>>> bit will be self centering as there is already a hole, so if I mount
>>>> the bracket on a 2X4 and clamp it down and then take it slow. I
>>>> should be OK.
>>>
>>> You can always check with a college or high school. The University of
>>> Maryland evidently has a shop with a lot of equipment available - I've
>>> had two different students do work, one a bike, one a custome piece of
>>> furniture.
>>>
>>> And one high school, after the shop guy said they had the tools and a
>>> really good kid at what I needed to have done. Something added to a
>>> 4x8 trailer for the bike racks.
>>>
>>> Total cost? All of it was actually free, other than materials. The
>>> frame builder at Proteus thought the bike work was pretty well done
>>> (only part of it I remember was a precision drilling through a curved
>>> fork crown on a track bike, and some other stuff that is no longer in
>>> the memory bank - think it was something to do with the rear cutouts).
>>>
>>> Curtis L. Russell
>>> Odenton, MD (USA)
>>> Just someone on two wheels...
>>
>> I will check the local vocational school, but up to 9011 it was easy
>> getting into the shop to talk to the instructor, but now you can't get
>> passed the front gate.
>
> As of today the mount has not shipped from ICE, but the new whip showed
> up yesterday, and it is constructed real nice. The coupling in the
> center is made of metal and the whip itself is a bright yellow/green
> that is fluorescent. I will send an email to ICE to find out what the
> holdup is.
According to John at ICE the mount should be delivered to them by lunch
today. He also informed me that he drilled out the mount for me to
6.6mm, which saves me th problem of doing it myself. I am looking
forward to getting this done.
Joel