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Can you give me a bit more info? If you are here, then your account is good. The photo above seems to be of some PDF thumbnails, most are mine, but one looks like a commercial trike. Perhaps you had purchased individial downloads from my old website? Brad

Trust no hardware! Here I have a 20TB server running Server2019 with redundant RAID drives. In another building, I have the identical server synced to the main one via long range nanobeam links. I also have a 3rd large NAS I run compressed backups to.

Funny, I rode many 12ft+ tallbikes around town without a helmet, raced my Maurader downhill at 90+ km/hr with one rear brake but was afraid to weld a BB together! I just keep imagining a scenario where I am in the lower front chainring just power cranking up a hill and it lets go, turns sidways...

The heat effected zone will become brittle unless allowed to cool extremely slowly. Even then... kinda iffy. I tried a pre and post heat on steel like this with some success, but decided it just wasn't worth the risk. Here is what I did (ultra high tech) to test the bb axles I tried welding...

Yes, it was for a unicycle. I made the axle from a chuck of steel rod. I hand filed it square, then drilled and tapped the bold holes at the ends. I had tried welding a square bike axle together once, but it failed due to being higher carbon steel. Brad

I once had to make a custom square BB axle. Wasn't sure the hardened steel would take well to welding, so I did it the hard way. Used a hand file and hand tap.

GIY : Grow It Yourself! Posted my full greenhouse build from site prep to last bolt!

Nice ride! Looking forward to seeing it with the motor installed. Brad

Here it is... Cheers, Brad

Thanks. Yep, that little rebar greenhouse is over 10 years old and still in great shape. Using in mainly as a shade house now that I put up a much larger greenhouse. Might put hog panel all over it and make a grape tunnel out of it this year.

I have been stuck up north for a few weeks in a tiny construction trailer, and since I do not allow myself to watch a TV, I put some time into making these tutorials that are long overdue. Built these almost 10 years ago and they are still performing well out on our homestead. Hope there are...

Thanks for all the replies! Yeah, I never would have thought my chicken coop would get any traction along with the bikes, but for the last 6 years, it has been the only thing paying for hosting. Crazy! PortaPen is 99% of all income to the site, with all bikes combined being only 1%. When I...

Thanks for all the opinions. For sure, these tiny screens pushing what is a thin veneer of anything useful certainly ruins attention span. I looked at those sites like ticktock and reddit and just can't get my head around why anyone would use them. You post, it gets a few thumbs up, then it...

I know that social media has made it so sites like this get lost in the scrolly-scrolly world of doom and gloom, but lately something else has been happening and I was wondering if someone more in tune with the new social media world might have some answers. Sometime around 2020, my site...

Thanks for your support! At the top of the main forum page here, you will see everything... https://chopzone.com/forum/index.php A right click to save as will store them to your own device. Brad

The 16 gage is almost 1/8" wall, not too bad. What is the tube diameter?

What is the wall thickness or gage of the tubing you can get?

There were a bunch of rail bikes like this in the old forum. Sadly when I had to upgrade, I could not migrate most of the photos. I know some of the railbikers are still around here though! Brad

What is the closest tubing you can get from your nearest fencing supplier? Brad

Thanks for your support! Let me know if you think anything needs to be explained in any more detail when you are reading it over. If so, I will work it into the video series. Might try to start on it this weekend since I am home from the North for a bit. Brad