I love the flap!
Where are you printing theses at? What material? Any post-processing of the surface?
Those look great, very cool project.
I’m using shapeways, sintered nylon that they dye
The as-printed surface feels like soft sandstone and rapidly accumulates dirt, but about eleventy coats of spray laquer makes it like candy.
After that, a little sanding /reaming for surfaces that need to have a close fit.
Flap looks sw8.
Cool. Is the mudflap designed with holes such that the water spray is always deflected but the holes allow weight savings and are slightly more aerodynamic?
yep. holes are angled so that direct spray is blocked and whatever gets through is sent on a downward trajectory
they were also intended to give it some flexibility but it turned out way stiffer than i was aiming for, it’s gonna break the fender when it catches a curb
[quote=crowding]yep. holes are angled so that direct spray is blocked and whatever gets through is sent on a downward trajectory
they were also intended to give it some flexibility but it turned out way stiffer than i was aiming for, it’s gonna break the fender when it catches a curb[/quote]
Can you share more pics of the flap, from some different angles? Way into this concept.
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Retrofriction action works but I need to experiment with different friction materials
Indexing action is promising but needs to be a lot stronger and get fine tuned on cable pull
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fuck yeah! have you gotten your hands on a Jtek barend yet?
That is really cool.
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have you gotten your hands on a Jtek barend yet?[/quote]
yep. used one on my gearhub bike
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Beauty! I’m gonna poke the shit out of a $5-for-two planet bike rubber flap with a hot nail to approximate this… Will report back.
This is so fucking cool my fav thread right now - right on Peter
I dunno if this counts, but it’s bike-related, kind of? I finally figured out a way to organize my caps so I’m not always searching for the one I can’t find. (also, spoke cards, because who rides with those in their wheels?)
Nice! Every time I’m at Bikeworks or Recycled I look for a cool wheel for spoke card display. Yours looks good.
Cool idea with the caps, I wanna copy that with gloves too.
Thanks. It cost $2 at the hardware store. S hooks and some twine (that I already had.)
They probably have a bunch in the dead/recycling pile that can’t be fixed or sold. That’s where I got this one.
A good idea for hats and gloves.
Cats bound to attack them. Well, one cat in particular.
hiya tarck
so i got a king single speed hub and, aside from way heavier and not-quite-as-usable at the dtswiss hub, it’s great. except that you have to buy proprietary cogs. that are expensive. so i want to modify the existing freehub body to accept shimano cassettes. anyone have a suggestion?
i was thinking:
mount a dremel to a static surface
mount the freehub body to a moving surface
push the freehub into the measured dremel location, sort of like a mill. actually, a mill, but made with a few sliding pieces and a dremel.