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Re: Strip: A new take on toggles
By:Mike Savage
Date: 5/5/2012, 9:29 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: A new take on toggles (Malcolm Schweizer)

: I like that comment. Often we think we are being
: "traditional" by using bone, animal hide, and other
: items used by Inuit and other early kayakers. Really the
: "traditional" thought process was use what ya got!

:D Thanks Malcolm.
Similar in that tradition, my bike, a wee Honda 125 Innova had a slight problem for night driving, the headlight glare on my visor. I thought of making a F/G shield for it, or a woodstrip version, to block the glare but that would entail making molds or castings of the h/light shell. In the end I used some domestic sewer pipe I had laying around. Cut a section off, split it 'lengthwise', heated it and flattened it, heated it again and molded it directly to the h/light shell. Four bolts, a few coats of satin black paint. No glare! :D

And most people don't even realise it's not a standard part. :)

Messages In This Thread

Strip: A new take on toggles *PIC*
Sean Dawe -- 5/3/2012, 10:30 pm
Re: Strip: A new take on toggles
Mike Savage -- 5/4/2012, 9:53 am
Re: Strip: A new take on toggles
Sean Dawe -- 5/4/2012, 10:44 am
Re: Strip: A new take on toggles
Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/4/2012, 11:44 am
Re: Strip: A new take on toggles
John Messinger -- 5/4/2012, 3:33 pm
Re: Strip: A new take on toggles
Sean Dawe -- 5/4/2012, 7:42 pm
Re: Strip: A new take on toggles
Bob Beaullieu -- 5/5/2012, 8:58 am
Re: Strip: A new take on toggles
Mike Savage -- 5/5/2012, 9:29 am
Re: Strip: A new take on toggles
Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/5/2012, 10:12 pm
Re: Strip: A new take on toggles
John Messinger -- 5/9/2012, 7:48 pm
Looks like PVC Pipe
John Caldeira -- 5/6/2012, 12:17 am
Re: Looks like PVC Pipe
Mike Savage -- 5/6/2012, 7:09 am
Looks like PVC Pipe
John Caldeira -- 5/6/2012, 12:17 am
Re: Looks like PVC Pipe
yellowbelly -- 5/6/2012, 4:30 am
Re: Looks like PVC Pipe
Sean Dawe -- 5/6/2012, 1:26 pm
Re: Looks like PVC Pipe
yellowbelly -- 5/6/2012, 3:46 pm
Re: Looks like PVC Pipe
Sean Dawe -- 5/6/2012, 4:55 pm
Re: Looks like PVC Pipe
Mark Vander Horck -- 5/7/2012, 12:46 pm