(Slammed Trike) doing the finishing touches...

[chattymatty]

Sry, Purple Power, you can get it at auto parts stores or even Walmart. It's like Simple Green in that it's a water based "soap" and not acetone or whathaveyou but it's very basic like lye... dissolves the fat right out of your skin and you peel for days. Shouted few choice words today as I had a MINT red Sigino chainring setting next to my spray bottle of it, it dripped and pulled the anno right off.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Nice work on the support bearing.
I have one of those disc brake adapters I bought to trial for another build idea, they seem good and sure do make fitting discs easy!

Luke.

 

[dracothered]

Nice work on the support bearing.
I have one of those disc brake adapters I bought to trial for another build idea, they seem good and sure do make fitting discs easy!

Luke.

Do you think the two set screws will be enough to hold it for braking?

 

[bikejunky]

They will hold if you file flat spots on the axle for them to bite into.

Tim

 

[Schwinnspastic]

Cool trike , my first trike was a disaster till I figured out the diff was locked...
the thing would just not turn.
I would have to wonder if the set screws will hold , you could carve a groove
in the axle for a woodruff key.
Mark

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Do you think the two set screws will be enough to hold it for braking?

As bike junky says, something to bite into would be good, what I recommend is what we used to do on industrial (400lbs a load) washing machine lock rings, install the set screws nice and tight so the leave a mark on the axle in the right places, then release them and move the collar out of the way, centre punch the mark made by the set screws and just start a hole with a drill there, not deep, just enough so that the set screws will sit within the circle made by the drill bit.

Highly recommend that, it works extremely well. If you are still worried you can buy longer set screws that stick out above the collar and put lock nuts on them, of if they are short enough that they fit well inside the collar, screw another down on top to stop it backing out.

Luke.

 

[dracothered]

As bike junky says, something to bite into would be good, what I recommend is what we used to do on industrial (400lbs a load) washing machine lock rings, install the set screws nice and tight so the leave a mark on the axle in the right places, then release them and move the collar out of the way, centre punch the mark made by the set screws and just start a hole with a drill there, not deep, just enough so that the set screws will sit within the circle made by the drill bit.

Highly recommend that, it works extremely well. If you are still worried you can buy longer set screws that stick out above the collar and put lock nuts on them, of if they are short enough that they fit well inside the collar, screw another down on top to stop it backing out.

Luke.

Dang Luke I was also thinking about the drill method too. Great minds think alike still ....

Though I will say that I would have gone deeper if you wouldn't of said what you said... Thanks Luke

 

[dracothered]

Ok, my headlight just came today. Love the old school lantern, it even has an input power stud on the bottom.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Cool light!

Luke.

 

[dracothered]

Here we have our headlight model displaying the two location that the light could go. The first one will leaves the head badge (Not the Huffy, but the Columbia) in plain view.

Based on this that I saw here if I remember correctly.

This also may make it on to the back of the trike...

 

[dracothered]

Time to build another set of truss rods...

Also thought it needs a sissy bar in the back...

The cross you see was hand forged out of a couple railroad spikes...

 

[deorman]

 

[dracothered]

How to bend steel rods where you want it to bend. Take a torch and heat the solid rod till it is at least a fairly bright red in color at the point of where you want the bend.

Note: This torch was sold as a weed burner, but works great at heating steel till it is red. This is due to its large burner head, about an 1-1/4" diameter across.

Here are the results you can get from it...

As you can see with a little heat and some carefulness you can bend up the truss rods fairly easy like. I still need to fab up a top mount point.

 

[dracothered]

Still need to trim down the size of the washer I used to go around the steer tube, but other than that I now have a top truss rod clamp...

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Nice work on the truss rod top Drac!
Looks good!

Luke.

 

[dracothered]

Thanks Luke...

 

[The Renaissance Man]

The truss rods are looking good, and I love the cross on the sissy bar!

 

[Scribble]

cool build man

 

[jats]

excellent work!!!

Troy

 

[mplumb59]

What size rod did you use for the truss?