| Re: Car-free since 11/1/2006!
In article <WKwzh.931039$1T2.94347@pd7urf2no>,
"nash" <zwepytzkehillc9@jetable.net> writes:
>> I'm currently in the throes of designing/building a
>> cargo trailer out of the discarded skeletal remnants
>> of a 3-wheeled jogging stroller with 16" pneumatic wheels
>> (finally getting around to it.) I'm considering integrating
>> the hitch with my kickstand -- it's the type that clamps onto
>> both chainstay and seatstay. I've got a coroplast post office
>> sorting bin that'll serve as the cargo box. I'll derive the
>> tow arm from the handle of the stroller.
> Sure beats paying $2-400 for it. They have a few home builts here in
> Surrey. They look pretty much like strollers.
i tried crimping the end of a cut-off section of
stroller handle (to fashion a tow arm,) to lie flush
against the 3rd wheel dropout of the stroller frame.
I then bored a hole in it, and bolted it all together.
But it's all too bendy. Crimping the tubing destroyed
its integrity.
Back to the drawing board.
The trailer-frame and tow-arm will have to
remain formed as the tubing they already are.
At least that gives me parameters within which
to work.
All I've got to do, is to bolt a properly bent
(not crimped) length of tow-arm tubing onto the
trailer frame tubing.
I hope.
If that doesn't work, then I've gotta look for
some other material.
cheers,
Tom
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