02-15-2007, 03:17 AM
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#24 (permalink)
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:22:24 -0800, tkeats2005@hotmail.com (Tom Keats)
wrote:
>In article <WKwzh.931039$1T2.94347@pd7urf2no>,
> "nash" <zwepytzkehillc9@jetable.net> writes:
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>>> 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.
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>> Sure beats paying $2-400 for it. They have a few home builts here in
>> Surrey. They look pretty much like strollers.
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>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.
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>Back to the drawing board.
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>The trailer-frame and tow-arm will have to
>remain formed as the tubing they already are.
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>At least that gives me parameters within which
>to work.
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>All I've got to do, is to bolt a properly bent
>(not crimped) length of tow-arm tubing onto the
>trailer frame tubing.
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>I hope.
>
>If that doesn't work, then I've gotta look for
>some other material.
>
>
>cheers,
> Tom
You might find hardwood dowling that just fits inside the tubing.
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