Jersey Big Mike
100K mile club
So I'm here in the rain and planning some trips and trying to figure out how to get everything on the K-9 that I need. One of the things I'd like is something I could lock. I also need more tool box space (tools and rain gear).
Well I've been thinking about most fork bags and they sit nicely on the fork tubes and waste the space between and behind the tubes -- First aha (years ago) Hey just put a smaller bag on the back of the forks -- great thought but never found a set that both attached well at the same time.
So, since I have a 3D printer, I decided to make my own bad out of plastic (covered with naughahye or vinyl, leather etc) I could make this strong enough to lock and securely attach to the bike.
Problem was I haven't done CAD in over 25years, never did 3D CAD even then. And I don't know any pof the CAD programs.
Why let that stop me, since I was sort of winging it design wise and learning CAD apps together, I ended up with OpenScad -- an open source CAD app that you design via MATH not drawing line
so to make a cube
cube(25)
a 25mm cube with a 20mm hole thru the center
difference(){ cube(25); translate([12.5,12.5,0]) cylinder(r=10,h=25);}
Ok, back in the day I was a bit a a math geek but that's been years since college and didn't do a lot of math in the IT industry.
So off I went (for the past several days/nights etc).
The mock up of this is as follows (started building it in pieces but is going to take days -- an estimate for print time as a single object was 126hrs, and I can't print that big anyway, so I have to break into multiple prints.
3dview, top,side and front views
Well I've been thinking about most fork bags and they sit nicely on the fork tubes and waste the space between and behind the tubes -- First aha (years ago) Hey just put a smaller bag on the back of the forks -- great thought but never found a set that both attached well at the same time.
So, since I have a 3D printer, I decided to make my own bad out of plastic (covered with naughahye or vinyl, leather etc) I could make this strong enough to lock and securely attach to the bike.
Problem was I haven't done CAD in over 25years, never did 3D CAD even then. And I don't know any pof the CAD programs.
Why let that stop me, since I was sort of winging it design wise and learning CAD apps together, I ended up with OpenScad -- an open source CAD app that you design via MATH not drawing line
so to make a cube
cube(25)
a 25mm cube with a 20mm hole thru the center
difference(){ cube(25); translate([12.5,12.5,0]) cylinder(r=10,h=25);}
Ok, back in the day I was a bit a a math geek but that's been years since college and didn't do a lot of math in the IT industry.
So off I went (for the past several days/nights etc).
The mock up of this is as follows (started building it in pieces but is going to take days -- an estimate for print time as a single object was 126hrs, and I can't print that big anyway, so I have to break into multiple prints.
3dview, top,side and front views