You're so crazy, I love the mirror image shot.

*jealous*

https://images6.theimagehosting.com/w...truck-2.th.jpg

Oversize load, eh? that's the understatement of the year.

BTW, I love the tow bar :P

Sooo cheap, sooo jealous.

Keep up the good work. Do you have an estimated date of completion?

Not really sure about dates.

Well shoot, I'll be up around canada by september, mehbe you can gimme a ride.

No real news to report, but I did start up and move the blue car today, so tackling the next stage of the project is on the radar anyway.

Actually did 20 min

Whatever kind of coupler you come up with, I would consider getting it case hardened...at least see how expensive the process is.

Adapter

hey was the red cars right suspension horn A-arm mount area rusted out?
Looks like my Old Geo is going to end up in Doug's junk yard at this rate - can't justify the cost of owning it for the fuel savings now that the xB is getting such high mileage. It is either fix it safely and sell it or junk yard time.

The red car was rusted & patched exactly where yours is - sorry. Guess it's sayonara Suzukiclone for you too, eh?

Have you been riding/driving your electric scooter this year? You really ought to post a thread about it (with pics, naturally). :)

I thought that was the one you patched, so I guess the other side is not the same either huh?

Nope getting tired of fixing the broken controllers but I am working on an old mountain bike that I now have 2 20" eGo wheels on a 26 inch frame making it a low rider stretch bike that I will mount an eCycle motor on and maybe 2 or 4 - 26ah batteries on a spring mount and end up with a pretty fast low sitdown easy rolling street bike - no suspension with high pressure ringworm tires.

You could cut an old cooling tray (like for baking) down to size, prolly pick one up from a junk sale or thrift store for cheap.

That's a good idea - and it made me think of another one: a grill from an oven (the racks inside, you know?).

Shopping cart mesh
 

How about the mesh from an abandoned shopping cart?

No abandoned carts in my little town. But that's the idea I was thinking of. Even something like the mesh from an ironing board. (Some have a metal lattice under the pad & cover...) Something will turn up. If not, I could always go buy a roll of aluminum flashing and put on a double-ply's worth.

Anyway, the bike trailer is done. Turned out OK. I'll post a pic or 2 eventually.

First, as promised,

Second: back to the ForkenSwift.

After a too-long delay, Ivan and I spent an hour on it this morning. Hopefully the inertia will carry it along a little more regularl

How much did it cost for the tranny adapter plate?

It was gratis for the metal. Scrap. Ivan cut it & we drilled it.

*getsangry*

Dude, that's awesome. that crap cost like 900 dollars for hondas. Make me one so I can use my tranny with the new L12!

Make yer own! The material wouldn't have cost much - $60-70 CDN pesos, had we had to cough up the cash. Aluminum (the stuff we got, anyway) is very easy to work (soft).

We could have bought one from an EV supplier for roughly $150 US.

Yeah, I guessssss. Not gonna fool with serious fab work until I go EV.

Well, Sketchup is neat, but it's not really appropriate for this task.

*swoonsoverdarin'sawesomeness*

Dude, you said it'd be done by september. I'm counting on you.

Did I say DONE by Sept? :o

How 'bout September-ish for the first electric test drive. :D

If it were up to me alone, Sept. would be no problem. Unfortunately it's a two-person project and Ivan has a full-time+ job (and clearly, I don't!).

Don't blame everything on poor Ivan! :) Don't worry, you're doing just fine.

No, not blaming. It's actually good that he can't work on it all the time, or I'd likely neglect my work (more than usual) and get the clients riled up. Keeps me in check ... unlike today, whiling away the afternoon writing GS messages. Enough! Back to work...

Indeed, back to work for me as well! (huh?)

Happy Schoonering Darin. I will be doing a more mundane thing during the same time period. Yours sounds like more fun but at least I will see more cyotes, armadillos, skunks and turtles than you. :D

Thanks Dan. Watch out for those armadillos - I hear they increase rolling resistance :D

I'll get to see, um... more whales, seals and porpoises than you!

WOW I know a lot of guy in Power-Assist that will be happy to hear that law being passed.

The only downside is they're calling it a "pilot project". So it's open to review sometime down the road. Still, cool.

I love seeing updates on this Darin!

This is an exciting part of the process... where all of the custom works really comes into play.

I was just thinking how useful this thread is going to be to a ton of people when you're done.

Update-o-rama!

Picked up the motor & tranny fro

Pics of the mystery parts I've been talking about...

Well, the blue Forke

Block heaters can make decent outlets to use to your advantage when you need a charge.

You should seriously consider aeromods to this thing to increase top speed and extend range.

It's hard to say because the emotor can put out so much instantaneous torque from a start that it can easily chew things up. Metro, maybe you should put some kind of damping circuit on the accelerator potentiometer to limit sudden increases (if your controller doesn't have this already). That "soft coupler" you have is very clever.