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Um, yeah. Didn't I mention that before? I have a set of disc covers (plastic ones) that have been in a box behind my furnace for a couple of years. I decided this is the place to use them, unless I don't like how they look. I painted them satin black. Here's the front wheel: Full...

I installed the new headset on the frame and fork, letting me actually install the fork, pick out a stem, and put the bars on. So it starts to take some shape. The steer tube seems to be oddly offset to the front of the fork crown, which makes the fork legs look shifted back slightly on the...

So, I learned something important while in the shop last night: don't spray paint stuff when wearing sandals: Fortunately, it cleaned up with some scrubbing... But on to other things. The crankset, painted "hammertone" copper: I think it'll need another coat to be hammerytonier. I found...

LOL. Well, one more thing of note from yesterday - I filed a bevel around the back side edge of the lens (including over the screw bosses). The picture is poor, sorry: But with that, it fits nicely just below flush inside the cone, like it was supposed to be there. I'll make a couple of...

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Alright, do my tail lights look a little more appropriate if they look something like this? I'm probably actually going to do two fins about 120 degrees apart, with the rocket itself being mounted to the top of a larger fin. The fin is made from a scrap of copper sheeting I had, though the...

Wow, good work. I didn't even recognize it at first... I'm glad its being put to good use. :D

LOL, King. Yeah...no, I'm not going there. So, I was out at the Syracuse Hot Rod Nationals this weekend. Lots of cool stuff, but I only took a couple pictures due to lack of a real camera. But, here: Says it all, right? Awesome paint work on this bucket-T: But what was really cool was...

Some signs of progress. I pressed the bearing cups into the bottom bracket shell, so there's really nothing to stop me from starting to assemble the basic bike hardware: I got the wood tank parts back from Jason, so they're mostly ready for staining and urethane: I need to put some wood...

Update time. I picked some items to fill out this build, even though I was trying to use as many pre-existing parts as possible. But I needed a cranks set and bottom bracket for the frame, and I didn't have anything Schwinn-specific that was in a condition I found acceptable. So I found this...

Sorry in advance for the crappy photos, I really think my cell phone camera is getting progressively worse. And for being late in getting back on track here. My friend has taken a little longer with the wood parts then I'd like, so I'll have to come back to that. I finally took the wheels out...

OK, a minor update. I made a template for the tank from the above tracing, electing to actually make a wooden tank instead of a simple tank plate. So I cut out to match a mid-tube profile, like the steel tank would be (I split the difference between the inner and outer lines). Here's the...

I've got the fenders and chain guard for this frame as well, but don't know if I'll use them. What I'll have to come up with is the bottom bracket bearing set for a Schwinn crank, since the cups have been removed by someone else. I've been made to understand that, like all things Schwinn, they...

Yeah...no. What I have realized recently is that the project, as I sketched it out, is too ambitious for the time I've got to put into it this year. Rather than compromise it with a "light" version, I'm simply going to put it on hold (much to the dismay of anyone that actually cares, I' sure...

Yeah...I'm not sure about that one...

Thanks. It'll be an experiment, and if it doesn't work out, I have other ideas to achieve the same basic thing (though it might not be as cool looking). But, over the past several builds, I've been kind of developing some fabrication skills in this direction and this seems like the next step...

Thanks! I had that in the back of my mind, as you might infer from the thread title. I was actually toying with the idea of lettering "Maj. Tom" on one side of the tank (in fighter plane fashion) and maybe Dave Bowman on the other... :D

I plan to make it from sheet aluminum. I watched a video on hammer forming, so I'm dangerous now (mostly to myself)... :crazy: I'm going to try to break the design down to simple sections and rivet them together; I think that lines of rivets will add texture and detail, like what I did last...

The trouble with that is that I want to have the yellow lenses to tie into the color scheme. I guess I owe an update here, its been a while since I've been on the site and I am now woefully behind in trying to keep up with everyone's progress. Though I haven't posted, that doesn't mean I've...

Thanks. I actually just got the bike back from its exile in California last week and have been riding it all around. I'm actually up to 3.3 Surlys now - aside from the Pacer, I also have a Trucker and a Pug, plus I'm running a 1x1 fork on my old Kona Hahanna (the .3 part). Regarding brakes...