If you can guess what this is without scrolling down then you win a prize. Hell, I built it and I'm not sure what to call it!
Maybe this will help.
It is still a work in process but it's getting close. The problem that this is the intended solution to, is storing the bike in the RV when it is closed up, with out removing the wheels off the bike. There is simply no place to do this horizontally short of laying it on the bed. If it looks like it has too many pieces that is simply because it evolved as I went along. I will tidy it up once I have it finalized. I still need a proper hook for the top. What you see there was again just part of the trial and error process.
And of course as in every project I undertake I had an idiot moment. Today's involved the chuck key for my little drill press. At some point while I was uptown today I discovered it in my pocket, as opposed to stored in it's own special little place on the side of the drill. I hate when that happens since that's how they get lost, and there is nothing quite as frustrating as a missing chuck key. Anyway I knew it was safe at least, and I never thought any more about it until I went to tidy up at the end of my day. I was gonna remove the drill bit from the press and reached into my pocket to get the key, only to come up with.....nothing! Shit! I knew that was gonna happen. I spent at least 10 minutes looking for it and when I finally gave it up as a lost cause it occurred to me to check to see if I might have a spare that would fit. Lo and behold I found one in my toolbox and while not perfect it looked like it would work. Not to make the same mistake I immediately removed the drill bit from the chuck and then went to store the new key in the special little place on the side of the drill. It wouldn't go! There was already one there!! Idiot!!
(swim 1250 metres, 6 km trail run)
"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing"---Joshua Reynolds
Maybe this will help.
It is still a work in process but it's getting close. The problem that this is the intended solution to, is storing the bike in the RV when it is closed up, with out removing the wheels off the bike. There is simply no place to do this horizontally short of laying it on the bed. If it looks like it has too many pieces that is simply because it evolved as I went along. I will tidy it up once I have it finalized. I still need a proper hook for the top. What you see there was again just part of the trial and error process.
And of course as in every project I undertake I had an idiot moment. Today's involved the chuck key for my little drill press. At some point while I was uptown today I discovered it in my pocket, as opposed to stored in it's own special little place on the side of the drill. I hate when that happens since that's how they get lost, and there is nothing quite as frustrating as a missing chuck key. Anyway I knew it was safe at least, and I never thought any more about it until I went to tidy up at the end of my day. I was gonna remove the drill bit from the press and reached into my pocket to get the key, only to come up with.....nothing! Shit! I knew that was gonna happen. I spent at least 10 minutes looking for it and when I finally gave it up as a lost cause it occurred to me to check to see if I might have a spare that would fit. Lo and behold I found one in my toolbox and while not perfect it looked like it would work. Not to make the same mistake I immediately removed the drill bit from the chuck and then went to store the new key in the special little place on the side of the drill. It wouldn't go! There was already one there!! Idiot!!
(swim 1250 metres, 6 km trail run)
"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing"---Joshua Reynolds
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I guessed that it was a hanger for your bike before scrolling down!! However, I didn't guess that it was for the RV. Cool invention!
ReplyDeleteI get a prize, what is it?
ReplyDeleteI knew right away what it was and Im happy with that being my prize. What I love is that I knew the chuck was back on the drill before you told us!! ha ha, takes one to know one...idiot!!
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