Non-Bike Use for Bike Parts...Waddya Got ?
11-19-20, 03:35 PM
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Lotsa parts used.
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old Takagi granny ring helps stabilise the moka pot. it had a weird BCD, then i broke some teeth off trying to bend them down to help it 'lock' into place here. nevertheless, works like a champ...
11-19-20, 04:46 PM
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not very exciting, but i cut out a circular section around a schrader valve tube, secured/sealed it to the carburetor to pressurize the cylinder on my chainsaw. and, used a rock shox pump from the early 90's to pressurize it. leak down testing!
great ideas and applications throughout this whole thread!!!
great ideas and applications throughout this whole thread!!!
11-19-20, 10:02 PM
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I've been celebrating a 39T Christmas for several years now:
Gave an old Puch-made Free Spirit 20" kids 5 speed to a friend and she used it to decorate for Christmas:
Gave an old Puch-made Free Spirit 20" kids 5 speed to a friend and she used it to decorate for Christmas:
11-20-20, 12:00 AM
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You can probably guess what it is, scroll down if not... Note, the hub was already ruined, with cracks at the spoke holes — I didn't do this to a perfectly good hub. And obviously the frame was totaled too.
I did later add the dropout adjuster screws, which make positioning the the hub in the dropouts faster!
Ooh I really ought to put a Portacatena on the right dropout, I'm sure never going to use that stupid portacatena on a real bike.
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It mounts to the wall. Got it yet?
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In the bathroom. Next to the toilet.
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Mrs. ollo complained passenger seat in our wagon wasn't working right. Dealer claimed I needed a new seat for $1800! I declined, brought my car home & pulled the seat. Found a broken bolt in the mechanism. Replaced it with a metric stud and nut from my bicycle parts bin. Cost nothing but several hours of my time, a lot of muttering, and a pinched finger,
11-20-20, 08:31 PM
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I just bought this belt (and free key fob) made from a Conti GP5000 tire from a guy in Germany that I saw on Instagram. https://instagram.com/guertel_michel...d=h2zrc8nr63n5
Check out his site, he upcycles bike parts into all kinds of cool stuff.
Check out his site, he upcycles bike parts into all kinds of cool stuff.
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11-20-20, 09:18 PM
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There was a kid from Japan touring the US and stopped in San Francisco for a bit. He made belts and bags out of old inner tubes to fund his stay here. The hand stitching was superb.
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Do bike tools count? Campy cone wrench to remove a plumbing fitting.
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02-26-21, 11:47 AM
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I'm very much NOT an automobile mechanic, but did some very basic oil change stuff on my '80 VW Rabbit back then. One day I was checking the oil level, and noticed an opening in the engine block through which I could see the innards of the engine. Which I figured I probably wasn't supposed to be able to do. Some kind of threaded plug had rattled loose and disappeared. I'm looking at the opening, looking at the thread, and realized I knew that thread. Since I was a bicycle mechanic at the time, I went to my loose parts box and found a loose rear derailleur mounting/pivolt bolt from a Suntour Cylone rder. Threaded 'er in, tightened 'er up, and Bob was my uncle.
Drove that car for several more years with a Suntour rder mounting bolt for a engine block plug, even sold the car with the plug still in place.
No pictures, but it did really happen.
Drove that car for several more years with a Suntour rder mounting bolt for a engine block plug, even sold the car with the plug still in place.
No pictures, but it did really happen.
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I posted this in the past, so some members may recall it. For a 7th grade science project, my son had to build a chair from recycled materials. He chose bicycle rims for the frame work. Fifteen years later, including 5-6 years years of heavy use as his perch for the video game drum kit, it still easily supports his 6'2", 200 lb. body.
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02-26-21, 12:54 PM
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My Corolla started growling badly last year which got me thinking about a large hole and a complete exhaust system replacement. Eh, that could total the car. I crawled underneath and found a loose heat shield up near the front end. It lay on the exhaust pipe and rattled like crazy at low rpm. The proper gap between the two did not look like much and if I could just stabilize the sheet metal it may not be so bad. Being an LBS mechanic, I went to the scrap metal box and pulled a F wheel. Cut the alloy hub out and stripped the guts out. Inserted two spokes. I pushed that hub up between the pipe and the heat shield and twisted the ss spokes around the pipe to tie the hub in place. Acceptable now. Even sort of sounds like a tuner. But it's looks will never fool anyone.
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Wait, what? No picture of the crossbow itself? C'mon, help us out here.
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I posted this in the past, so some members may recall it. For a 7th grade science project, my son had to build a chair from recycled materials. He chose bicycle rims for the frame work. Fifteen years later, including 5-6 years years of heavy use as his perch for the video game drum kit, it still easily supports his 6'2", 200 lb. body.
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I had far less to do with it than you are probably thinking. Rather than telling him how to design and build it (which was quite tempting), I posed questions that caused him to think and come up with a workable concept. The design was almost entirely his own with very little direct input from myself. When building it, I supervised his use of the tools, after demonstrating their proper use. About the only thing that I actually did was straighten sections of the rim which forms the back support and two rear legs. He could have done it but to get an acceptable piece would have consumed a lot of time and more junk rims than I had available.
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I had far less to do with it than you are probably thinking. Rather than telling him how to design and build it (which was quite tempting), I posed questions that caused him to think and come up with a workable concept. The design was almost entirely his own with very little direct input from myself. When building it, I supervised his use of the tools, after demonstrating their proper use. About the only thing that I actually did was straighten sections of the rim which forms the back support and two rear legs. He could have done it but to get an acceptable piece would have consumed a lot of time and more junk rims than I had available.
02-27-21, 07:47 PM
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I had far less to do with it than you are probably thinking. Rather than telling him how to design and build it (which was quite tempting), I posed questions that caused him to think and come up with a workable concept. The design was almost entirely his own with very little direct input from myself. When building it, I supervised his use of the tools, after demonstrating their proper use. About the only thing that I actually did was straighten sections of the rim which forms the back support and two rear legs. He could have done it but to get an acceptable piece would have consumed a lot of time and more junk rims than I had available.