Jonathan, I have some stuff here, you paint it on to rust, it starts out white, then turns blue and finally black, it converts the rust somehow and makes a very hard, very durable coating on steel.
Having a good day today!
My headset arrived, and the bipod bike stand also arrived, add to that I got the tow bar done on the trailer, so yeah, I'm having a good day!
Using a piece of tubing that I bent as practice, and centering it on the trailer, I wanted to see how long the tow bars would have to be.......
I would like to keep the trailer fairly close to the back wheel of the bike, but I do need some space, so there is some clearance.
I also wanted to put the pivot point fairly close to being over the rear axle, I figure this would be the best spot for it, if you look at the bolt I put on top of the tube.
To bend the tubes I made a very simple, but effective bending jig.....
Yes it is dog simple
I make sure that the seam in the tube in against the jig, I got this info from the site that I found this jig on.
I marked both tubes at the 40cm mark, so I could start from the same point.
Then I just grab the tube and bend it, it really is easy to do, but I guess the length of the tube helps, as it acts like a lever.
You can see the two black lines on the jig, this is the point that I bent the tube until, there is always some spring back.
I just used the corner of the jig to check for a nice 90 degree bend, works well.
Here are the two bent tubes on top of each other, it is important to be able to bend them the same.
I cut the tubes and then I tacked them onto the trailer. Once I had them lined up, but best I could, I broke out my laser level and had a look, the laser level was lined up with the very center of the trailer and the laser hits the very center of the tow bar, good enough for me!
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