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Thanks! I am baffled that people would throw this away. Maybe they knew I would come and collect the loot :p :21: I am not going all soviet on this one ;) I'll try and fix it first then start measuring and gathering parts. This could be a bicycle trailer too. With an detachable arm, the car...

Hi guys *nervous chuckle* So after the previous buildoff I started to sell bikes and parts. And someone, a guy that went to hotrod meetups wanted this Ratrod trailer incredibly bad for his son. This is his vehicle: You imagine the ratrod trailer with that! Incredible! So the trailer is...

Electra Ratrod jig tryout: HERE WE GOOO! The jig is very sturdy! I will lengthen the bike about 18 centimetres. Positioning the jig is still temporary. I plan to hang it on a tilting frame on the wall or hang it on the ceiling of the shed, so I can work around it.

Locally only one (out of many companies I spammed) offered plastic rollers. Grizzly has the steel rollers I actually desire. Grizzly emailed me some information, telling that above 70 lbs (31 kilograms) is considered "FREIGHT" and then they can only ship it via a dealer or person in the USA...

I sent Grizzly another email (thank you @SkyknightJohn ! that was a great tip!). They helped me a lot the first time but new questions regarding shipping arose. I tried a lot of shops here in the Netherlands, but they can only get plastic rollers for SST or AL. If shipping is an issue for...

Grizzly Bender link Above is the Grizzly bender link. Grizzly, like many suppliers have square dies. My dies are all for round tubing; 10mm to 25mm. Above, in this top video, the guy is bending 25mm (1") 2mm thick stainless tube. That is about the max this bender can go. I wonder what...

Very cool picture. Big engine!

Bending machine arrived! I did some research before buying it. Saw some youtube video's of people (ab)using thing thing. This thing is beefy. It has multiple dies that come with it. It is affordable and enough for me to start bending up to 25mm tubing.

Update: A supplier from the Netherlands called me and said they have rollers for my machine. The rollers are made from a hard plastic. I'm o.k. accepting it, but I feel skeptical about plastic. o_O Thinking out loud: The tube rolling machine is not a bender. The arches that I roll with the...

I rebuilt the hub. Grease for the bearings and oil for the brake shoes (oil doesn't stick). It brakes fine. Adjusted well. I don't like to kill a pig everytime I brake :grin:

Hi guys, I have a question: An old Bendix hub (1946 - 1963) with a steel shell and bronze schoes. Does it need any lubrication between the brake shoes and shell? Since my hub was sticking and screaming when braking. I use the same grease for every hub, works perfectly fine. But these shoes are...

Awesome, I saw this thing on pinterest at first. Never knew it was here on this forum 😍

Jamesblacksheep bike there 😎

I ordered a tubing bender. A cheap-ish one first. There are cheap benders in my country and professional, very expensive benders that go 1k and up. Nothing in between. I chose this bender since it had multiple dies, so I have the option to fabricate racks/carriers as well. I saw some youtube...

*sigh* so much goodness in one post...

Thanks for thinking along Matti. Chromoly has very similar characteristics in regards to steel. Brazing really helps when you have these very thin "xx butted" tubes from Reynolds or Columbus. Then the heat induced into the material is much less, cause less tensions in the material. With 'regular...

A 'little research' update: (Yes, Ratrodbikes forum is also my notebook) Most 'custom cruiser' frames are relatively heavy and made out of 'mild steel'. When thinking about mild steel I thought of S335 / st52 (1.0577). But when I started looking for tube suppliers, starting with the biggest...

Little detail update: Coasterbrakes are usually 110mm or so in width. Most hubs are between 110mm and 135mm, so I decided to keep the 'dropout clamps' easy to modulate with large thick washers: 128mm right now. But I can switch the washer and bush easily. I might be a cool adaptation to...

Hmm. I can't find any Dutch company that is able to get rolls / dies for the roller. I contacted Grizzly (thanks for that tip @SkyknightJohn !!) and they are happy to sell them to me, just not ship it to the Netherlands. Hmm, one way or another, I'm aquiring rollers for the machine :forum...