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Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
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Bikelight done!!!
I've previously posted accounts of my adventures building a very
bright wide-angle flashing red bikelight for my daughter who rides her bike in NYC. Being highly visible is at least as important a safety measure as wearing a helmet for a cyclist in traffic in NYC. She is no engineer, but she was able to describe exactly what she wanted and couldn't find at any price. I had to learn some new skills and enhance older ones (TIG welding of thin aluminum to thick) to "meet the spec". That was part of the fun. Perhaps it was most of the fun, and why it took me so long. This week I shipped a finished unit. I think she likes it. Her comment: --- Oh yeah I got it! F****NG COOL! We turned off the lights and compared it to a paltry "civilian" bike light MWAHAHAHAHAHA Oh my goodness I cant wait to ride through Central Park after dark amoungst all the techie cyclist shave-an-ounce dorks. I haven't yet tried to mount it, will do that this weekend, but I love the little switch!!!! Thank you so much Dad, will get it mounted and do a trial run this weekend for sure, and will report back, wait till the Boyzz see it.... ---- Grin grin! This petite, svelte, pretty, talented, tough as necessary young woman is a recent graduate of "The New School" in NYC after a few adventures along the way to 30. She's also been a bike messenger in NYC where that is a contact sport because taxi drivers hate bike messengers, try to dump them in traffic with sideswipe skirmishes nobody sees. Knowing how to cave in the door of a taxi with a heelshot without dumping in traffic is a survival skill. NYC has standards for state-of -repair for taxis, fixing a well-placed stretched-metal heelshot is expensive bodywork. (Wonder where she learned that?) Word gets around. Taxis don't bother her much anymore, go figure. --- Flames for "proud dad" brags will be accepted as deserved. I hope I have a few friends on this forum that might enjoy the tale. I check in here often to learn and share, not to compete. I've found some good friends on this NG. BTW: Fitch's new house is now framed and closed with roof 3/4 felted before snow flurries temporarily stopped further roof work. He is movin' out smartly on that project. |
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