posted on another thread how many uses I've found for leather washers. Here, they let me do something that I thought was going to require fabricating a bracket. Wanted to put a Hot Shot tail light mount on my 1978 Jim Blackburn rack. We have the rack mount Hot Shot on my daughter's Tubus, so I was able to see that the screws fit nicely around the rear strut weld on the Blackburn. However, the different sizes of the strut and rack top rods make the light aim down a bit. Then, it seems like there's a needed strap bracket in the back to load the fastener nuts. Turns out, I was able to do, well, most of it, with leather washers - I had this rigged up for last weekend's ride, but I have my bike hanging on straps with the wheels dropped to mount full fenders, and it was a good photo op to show the mod.
<http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/aP1290010.jpg> While I could have chased down longer hex heads, I used the long M5s I already had, flat washers, and a second pair of leather washers, and it's rock solid. Below is a good inside view, showing how the leather washers formed all the inside bracket I need. The one thing that did happen, though, was the light pointed downward. There is a boss for a self-tapping screw (standard reflector mount) near the bottom inside of the Cygo mount. I had some thin brass tubing around that I used to make a spacer bushing on an antique silk fly line drier with a partially broken spring (vintage fly fishing is my first love). The thin tubing fit perfectly over the self-tapping screw boss and it didn't take much load to straighten the light. I used a round jeweler's file to make a saddle at the front of the brass tube, stuck it to the plastic bracket with gorilla glue, and to the rack stay rod with epoxy. Last weekend, it made the ride without any glue - just the tension of the plastic bracket, so this is really stuck now. <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/aP1290012.jpg> A clean fit up. <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/aP1290014.jpg>and it points where I want it to. -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
