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23 Oct 2011 16:05 #484913 by mtbspeedfreak
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Josh, you and Adam can team up to build a carbon fiber kayak after he gets his bike up and a few CF airboxes made. :silly:

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24 Oct 2011 13:37 - 24 Oct 2011 13:39 #485053 by T_Dub
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Nice work on the rack but I think my car looks better with a kayak on the roof haha.



I was at a gas station this summer and some guy in a minivan thought I was gonna hit his van with the back of the kayak haha. Sticks out a good 5-6 feet off the back of the car lol.

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24 Oct 2011 17:36 #485090 by mark1122
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nice work.
it is gratifiing to see your son working away.
i helped my 24yr old son put a railing on his new deck this week end. its nice to see that the lessons he learned by helping me over the years, are actualy helping him now. B)

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24 Oct 2011 23:03 #485164 by porchev914
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Ditto, I love it when my girls want to help me out. I've already told them they'll have to learn how to ride a motorcycle, change the oil, brakes and rotate tires on a car, and solo an airplane before I'll let them drive a car alone :P

MTBspeedfreak, thems' deep waters, making kayak moulds. I don't like the thought of paying for the fiberglass and resin to make the moulds, let alone the materials for a full carbon layup :sick: It is IMMENSELY more work than you realize my friend. But it's nice of you to dream of all the work we could do :laugh:

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25 Oct 2011 01:11 #485193 by testarossa
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I started to build my own kayak one time:



That's as far as I got before my Dad went into the hospital and finally succumbed to cancer. All I lacked was to make the ribs and skin the thing, but I was too depressed. The top frame sat outside for too long and started to rot. That was a Greenland style kayak.

Later I actually built my own canoe. It was epoxy/fiberglass over plywood. Jackson and I caught a few fish out of that one.



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28 Oct 2011 02:04 #485736 by tk11b40
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clutch wrote: I saw that big yellow kayak pic and thought you were going to tell us it was a new project....




KAYA-saki! :woohoo:


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30 Oct 2011 23:17 #486164 by testarossa
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This afternoon, I was able to spend a little time finishing up the fabrication of my kayak rack. You will notice that I added four fishing rod holders under the top rail. Hopefully, this will mean no more broken rods from sliding coolers. Keep in mind that I have to pass all the way through Houston on my way to and from fishing. Sometimes the freeways here involve what I call "combat driving." Evasive maneuvers have claimed more than one of my rods.


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I plan on driving around with the yak up there for a couple of days to see how things work. I used to tie it down in the bed of the truck, so it's always been shielded from the wind by the cab. I need to verify that the thing can handle doing 75 mph for 1 1/2 hours. All I have left is to sandblast the thing and paint it. I wouldn't mind building a detachable box to store "stuff" on camping trips and such. That will have to wait until I get my TIG. It needs to be aluminum. A steel box that size would prohibit easy installation and removal.

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30 Oct 2011 23:21 #486168 by testarossa
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Hey Tyler, do you have any close-up pictures of the tie down system and the support pads for your kayak?

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31 Oct 2011 09:51 #486236 by rslingshot
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Nice work Josh! What did you do with your old Ford?

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31 Oct 2011 10:00 #486238 by testarossa
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rslingshot wrote: Nice work Josh! What did you do with your old Ford?


I sold it down the road. The first guy who looked at it couldn't resist.

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29 Jan 2012 00:05 #500560 by testarossa
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Wow, it's been a little while since I posted any progress on the blue streak. Life got in the way again. My company put me in charge of the whole machine shop back at the end of November. Been pretty busy getting acclimated to my new responsibilities. Since I have a desk job now, I find it therapeutic to run a machine now and then. I have been needing to put some passenger pegs on my bike for a while now, so I decided to make up some mounting points this morning.

I started out with some scrap steel that was 3/4" thick, and borrowed one of the Bridgeport mills to cut it down. In this picture I'm squaring up the stock with a shell cutter:

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Here I'm roughing out the center section with a 3/4" roughing endmill or "corncob."

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Got my bolt holes drilled and I'm tapping them here. Notice the use of a tap guide to keep the tap straight.

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I decided that 3/4" thick is overkill and too heavy so I went back to the shell cutter to remove another 1/4" off the thickness.

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I stopped at this point to drag them home and test fit to the bike. I know that they are super basic at this point but I plan to radius the tabs and remove some more weight before I weld them to the bike. Stay tuned for more pictures when I get the rest of the machine work done.

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29 Jan 2012 01:32 #500571 by porchev914
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Whoohoo! Looks good Josh.... you gave me a great idea for my own passenger peg mounts, so thanks for the inspiration ;)

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