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[RBW] DIY Nitto rack hoop

2023-07-12 Thread Jay Lonner

One of the downsides of the Big Back Rack is that it doesn’t come with the 
tombstone/backstop feature that hooks so nicely into the leather patch 
designed for that purpose on my large SaddlesSack. I’m thinking of making 
one myself using daruma fixtures and a rack stay bent to fit. Does anybody 
have experience with this sort of fabrication? Can you get a nice radius 
bend with a bench vise and a soup can, or do you need a tubing bender? 
Alternatively — and this is a long shot — if anybody has an old or damaged 
rack with this feature, I’d be interested in buying it and trying my hand 
at a tombstone transplant.

Jay Lonner
Bellingham, WA

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Jay, Nice tombstone! Not “kludgy” at all. Thanks for sharing Dustin On Jul 20, 2023, at 11:05 PM, Jay Lonner wrote:For those interested, here’s what I came up with. Bending an aluminum rack stay with an improvised mandrel was easy. Two p-clamps and two daruma fixtures rounded out the hardware, and the installation doesn’t even look all that kludgy. Fits the leather pocket on my SaddleSack like a glove. Pics attached, with bonus glimpses of my wife’s Cheviot in the background.Jay LonnerBellingham, WASent from my Atari 400On Jul 12, 2023, at 11:02 AM, Jay Lonner wrote:One of the downsides of the Big Back Rack is that it doesn’t come with the tombstone/backstop feature that hooks so nicely into the leather patch designed for that purpose on my large SaddlesSack. I’m thinking of making one myself using daruma fixtures and a rack stay bent to fit. Does anybody have experience with this sort of fabrication? Can you get a nice radius bend with a bench vise and a soup can, or do you need a tubing bender? Alternatively — and this is a long shot — if anybody has an old or damaged rack with this feature, I’d be interested in buying it and trying my hand at a tombstone transplant.Jay LonnerBellingham, WA

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Re: [RBW] DIY Nitto rack hoop

2023-07-24 Thread JohnS

Thanks for sharing Jay! I'll have to remember that combination of daruma 
and p-clamps, very creative solution. Looks great to me.

JohnS

On Monday, July 24, 2023 at 2:21:51 PM UTC-4 Dustin wrote:

> Jay, 
>
> Nice tombstone!  Not “kludgy” at all. Thanks for sharing 
>
> Dustin 
>
> On Jul 20, 2023, at 11:05 PM, Jay Lonner  wrote:
>
> For those interested, here’s what I came up with. Bending an aluminum 
> rack stay with an improvised mandrel was easy. Two p-clamps and two daruma 
> fixtures rounded out the hardware, and the installation doesn’t even look 
> all that kludgy. Fits the leather pocket on my SaddleSack like a glove. 
> Pics attached, with bonus glimpses of my wife’s Cheviot in the background.
>
> Jay Lonner
> Bellingham, WA
>
> 
> 
>
> 
>
>
> Sent from my Atari 400
>
> On Jul 12, 2023, at 11:02 AM, Jay Lonner  wrote:
>
> One of the downsides of the Big Back Rack is that it doesn’t come with 
> the tombstone/backstop feature that hooks so nicely into the leather patch 
> designed for that purpose on my large SaddlesSack. I’m thinking of making 
> one myself using daruma fixtures and a rack stay bent to fit. Does anybody 
> have experience with this sort of fabrication? Can you get a nice radius 
> bend with a bench vise and a soup can, or do you need a tubing bender? 
> Alternatively — and this is a long shot — if anybody has an old or damaged 
> rack with this feature, I’d be interested in buying it and trying my hand 
> at a tombstone transplant.
>
> Jay Lonner
> Bellingham, WA
>
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