oh the camera in ballarat
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Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!
It has me intrigued... I think I follow what you've done. Any chances of some pix?
It could make for an unusual WIP (Work In Progress) thread... and they'd also gives us a better idea of what you're trying to do, so any advice (or ribbing :D ) would be more to the point.
It's definately going to be a SlowWork in progress, I'll try and gets some pics up soon, would have tonight but my daughter pinched it and its now holidaying in Ballarat.
Putting a tyre on a wheel
If you are at all interested in the old-fashioned way of putting a metal tyre on a wooden wheel (as described above), there is a really good description in the recent novel by Jill Paton Walsh Presumption of Death
The camera didn't go to ballarat afterall ya hooo
yeah I got the camera. This is just a pet project I got going, it's not meant to be ridden, you have to use some imagination, then you may remember your first bike, and the feeling of travel, then hurtling down the hill, legs spread, when you had the guts to just see if you could. That being said, I would think a child would be disappointed to find out they couldn't ride this bike, and wonder what would be the purpose of making such a thing. Any way I'm going ahead with it, not for sentimental or nostelgic reasons but as a memento to that stage in life.
The wood will be soaked in linseed/mineral turps and let dry then oil painted and "wet and dryed" back several times but will prodominatley be dark blue (but red is making a fight of it). I hope I can get/make all fitting from brass or copper then oxidise them to green. All above to make the tricycle look used.
First pic is the three rims, second of the front wheel, third of the copper wire join (yet to be epoxy glued), fourth of the front wheel hub (without hole foe axel), fith is of a flat view of some of the components to give some idea of forme, and sixth showing a rough idea of the wheels in place, the forks are not cut to length neither is the back "stem" which will be joined to a horizonal component that carries the axel for the two back wheels, no seat yet but imagine a small version of a tractor seat. vrom vromm.
I think I'll forget the threading of the spokes idea and just glue them in.
My metal working ability is close to non-exsitent, should have stayed at "Tech school".
Thanks to all of your replies, this is a great outlet, I'll keep you posted with pic updates.
Kind regards
Harry
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this sould have been the first pic
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I gotta go, that took some time.