Thanks! I'll start slow with adding weight and I'll look at better brake pads next, to help deal with it. I had to modify the rack a little so it's wrapped around the seat stays at three points, and where it gets crowded with the rear derailer cable and it's attachments, I modified the back right post to use a longer rod so I could attach it to the little bolt above the gears the way the bike designers intended. Not sure what that does, if anything, to it's weight capacity but I'll be careful.
Thank you! This is really good advice! I'm definitely not counting on the claimed 310 capacity (especially since I had to replace one post with a longer one I made from a 3/8" rod, so I could attach it to the little bolt above the rear gears instead of wrapping it around the seat stay). I'll definitely post my progress soon, and I think brakes are going to be my next step. Supposedly there's an adapter kit to add disc brakes to this bike but everything's so cluttered back there I think better pads make more sense and are more achievable. The pads on there now might be some of the only original parts left, not sure.
Well, brakes and one of those wrap-around-the-chain-stays kickstands. So I'll have a kickstand. It's a work in progress.
That's a good idea! I've got the rear rack attached, I'm going to add a kickstand and then some kind of front basket. I think these will work with my front fork.
Thanks!
I'm thinking about it - I have access to a laser cutter that can do steel etching. If I planned it carefully I could get it to match to inches between the points of the jaws to each tick or something. But I think I'm leaning towards leaving it origional-ish for now, since this setup still allows you to open and close them without losing your place, so you can measure the opening accurately and that's probably how they'll be used.
I haven't been over to the other zerowaste communities, so I appreciate the heads-up! I mod this one (though the community here is great and has needed no input from me!) so I want to make sure it continues to be a nice place to share projects and ways to avoid waste.
Yeah I generally don't love these extension cord / splitter combination because they make it too easy to casually plug in lots of stuff. I've been using this one but just for a box fan (old building, retrofitted for electricity with the absolute minimum number of outlets). When I do hook multiple things to one extension cord, I make sure it's something like power tools, where I know I can only use one at a time anyways, and that I'll always be there when its in use. I also check my cords for heat when they've been in use for awhile (I once found a daisy chained set of rack-mount power strips in a server room, where one of the plugs had melted to the socket it was plugged into, fusing them together. Pulling them apart broke the plastic outlet. I've been a little cautious ever since).
That's a cool idea - I might pick this up again sometime, it really was a very workable material.
Thank you!
Thanks so much!
I wonder if all that airborne grit effects the windmills. Just the same, I'm glad for any green energy progress
It's a tabletop role playing game - like a solarpunk scifi version of DnD (or the TTRPG of your pick). The rulebook and other resources available there enable people to play it. Specifically it helps one individual (the GM) run their own campaigns/games, by giving them a suggested set of rules and a vibrant setting they can use all or some of (or just take inspiration from), and it helps the rest of a group of players to create characters and interact with the setting. Together they do a sort of collective storytelling.
In the broader scope of what it does, hopefully it helps people who aren't super familiar with solarpunk and it's associated philosophies and movements to imagine a better world, other ways we could do things as a society.
This is really cool! I'd always thought this was done with molten gold, I had no idea that it was mostly done with resins. I might give this a try someday.