OK, since nobody explained it, I managed to view the .gif video on my phone. There's a clip wrapped around the top of the tombstone and a QR clip permanently attached to the front face of the Wald basket. You presumably insert the rack in place under the fixed tombstone clip, and then lock it in place with the QR clip. I like it a lot as a diy-project. If I were Clayton, I would similarly have little interest in trying to manufacture it for others.
A theoretical 'run' of a product like this would be made for one model of Wald basket to fit one model of front rack. A product made for just that combination would still need some non-trivial installation effort on the part of the end-user. If the basket sagged or bent at all in use, the QR clippy part might need to be adjusted. I'd be nervous offering this product to non-mechanically-inclined end users who don't have the mechanical instincts to detect when it's getting loose and the risk of it popping itself off is getting more likely. People building it themselves puts them in a better position to take responsibility for themselves. If it's too much trouble to make your own, then you probably don't really need it. It's super clever, though. I "never" remove my baskets, so I'm good with zipties Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Friday, August 31, 2018 at 11:55:00 AM UTC-7, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Can somebody explain to me what I'm looking at with Clayton's design? I a > static image in the instagram link posted above. I see a loop of metal that > is permanently wrapped around the top of the tombstone, and appears to be > temporarily clippable onto the top rail of a Wald basket. Is that the > entirety of the design? Or am I missing the rest of it? The instagram > link has a triangular play arrow but it's not playing on my Ubuntu/Firefox > machine. Is there a video tour of other components? > > If that's the whole design, then 'someone do a run' would be cutting > strips of flat metal. Each person would have to wrap it around their > tombstone, and cut and bend the shape for their basket. > If that's the whole design, what holds the body of the rack down? If I > grab the front edge of Clayton's wald basket and yank it around, what keeps > it from pivoting around that clip? Are there straps as well? If there are > straps, then what is the clip needed for? > > Love the hacks but missing the whole story > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > > On Friday, August 31, 2018 at 11:04:08 AM UTC-7, Philip Williamson wrote: >> >> I'd love to see someone do a run of Clayton's basket buckler. Perhaps... >> Rivendell? >> That would be a seriously couture basket rack. Add a bail to the basket, >> and you could carry it into a store. >> >> Philip >> Santa Rosa, CA >> >> On Friday, August 31, 2018 at 10:57:32 AM UTC-7, Drw wrote: >>> >>> Clayton’s thing is so good, and baskets are becoming so common, I wonder >>> if there isn’t a maker somewhere who would buy the design off of him. >>> As I recall, he said he isn’t much interested in manufacturing them >>> himself. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
