this sounds like more trouble than it’s worth, and you’ll probably break dremel bits, and you’ll end up with chattery not-straight edges, and it’ll look bad and maybe not work
take it to somebody with a real mill and it’ll take them 5 minutes
also are you sure that simply removing material will make it work. like the only problem is one spline is is too wide, all the angles and everything else is the same?
yep
you can buy modified cassettes from jefjones but then i’d be stuck buying them from him forever instead of building my own nerd cassette gearings
where do i find a machinist? serious q.
ADX?
send it to Sean/Ray/Jacques?
does Doug have a mill?
I’d offer but I’m about to leave the continent
who are sean and ray?
also any framebuilder
Finished 1 of a pair of homemade waxed canvas panniers
I suck at sewing. Definitely made some design mistakes but I think they’ll work for awhile.
I think they need to be bigger
Nice. I’m in favor of any homebuilt stuff. And sewing anything is always trickier than I think it will be whenever I’ve tried it.
Right. Ribbing aside, this.
Yea it’s a little big. I just wanted something smaller than the big bags I have and something bigger than the small ones. So I gutted the little guys for these
Hell yeah Gunther.
Can we see a backside shot? How do they attach?
Very cool. What’s the material?
[quote=hiljentaa]Hell yeah Gunther.
Can we see a backside shot? How do they attach?[/quote]
It’s pretty old school. I just wasn’t about to drop more money on locking hooks but if I ever make more bags I would probably go that direction.
Waxed duck canvas. Waxing it was the most difficult and frustrating part of the whole project
For the record, those attachments should probably be good indefinitely. Just squeeze the hooks until they have a a bit of an “interference” fit and they probably won’t pop off. I have a set of 1980s Lone Peaks with identical hooks, top and bottom, and have ridden over one hundred miles on gravel roads over two days and they were rock solid. I mount them to a Tara with nothing attached to the bottom rail to keep the bottom hook from sliding off, even.
I would consider getting buying a set of the Lone Peak top rail hooks, though. They work great and are much less finicky than the spring loaded ones other companies make. They’re also a softer plastic and I think are less likely to crack.
I feel pretty confident in the setup. The bungee is from lone peak and I chose it over their “new and improved adjustable system” because I have those on another pair of bags and there is just no tension in those cords. The short stubby guy is super tight and it was really nice to be able to put the bag on the rack and put the bungee where it can make things super secure. Their other ones just allow too much sway at the bottom.
Their hooks are the ones I was considering too. I like how they didn’t fuck around with all of that “pull up to release” crap I’ve seen on other systems. Seems like too many moving parts that could fail