Been busy!
David Jenkins - 2/2/08 at 05:13 PM
I wanted a new oil catch-tank for my car, and rather liked the one used by RazMan - a modified water bottle from Halfords.
Me, being awkward, looked at the top of the bottle, saw that it had a thread inside and decided that I'd make a screw-in cap. Here's what
I came up with...
Catch-tank cap
I bought a bracket to go with the water bottle, and an air filter off ebay for a Pound or two, and this is what they look like when assembled...
catch-tank with bracket
It really was a time-waster, and when in the car it'll hardly be visible, but it will make emptying very easy and I enjoyed working out how to
make it (especially turning a 26mm x 2mm thread on the lathe!)
(and no, I'm not going to make one for anyone else!)
matt.c - 2/2/08 at 05:16 PM
OMG! you made that!!
That would take me years to do that! 
COREdevelopments - 2/2/08 at 05:19 PM
thats neat. must of taken a while but well worth the effort i think!!
Rob
piddy - 2/2/08 at 05:38 PM
Looks great, well done.
adithorp - 2/2/08 at 05:40 PM
Vers nice. Are you sure you don't want to make just one more? ;-)
Don't spoil it with a cheap bracket though. Get something like this.
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=25548
adrian
David Jenkins - 2/2/08 at 05:53 PM
quote:
Originally posted by adithorp
Don't spoil it with a cheap bracket though. Get something like this.
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=25548
adrian
Eek! Nearly £30, prob plus postage!
I paid £5 for the bottle, £1 or less for the bracket, £2 for the filter and long-ago-paid-for bits and pieces from my stocks of metal.
Oh - and I paid £5.75p today for a fresh bottle of Loctite 603 'cos my 15-year-old bottle of 601 wouldn't stick anything anymore!
speedyxjs - 2/2/08 at 05:56 PM
Wow nice work 
adithorp - 2/2/08 at 06:08 PM
...and how many hours?
Tell you what, make me one and I'll buy you a carbom cage. ;-)
adrian
David Jenkins - 2/2/08 at 06:16 PM
quote:
Originally posted by adithorp
...and how many hours?
There's no point in making a Locost if you're going to cost up the hours! We'd never be able to afford to make one.
It took about 3 - 4 evenings, with however long it took for me to decide that I was getting too cold per evening.
Most of the time was taken up trying to get my thread-cutting to work properly. Even now the thread's a bit flat-topped, but it works, and
it's not a structural joint anyway.
bigrich - 2/2/08 at 06:17 PM
very ingenious, i like it very much
nice job David
Rich
BenB - 2/2/08 at 06:40 PM
Nice job. Love the knurling....
Confused but excited. - 2/2/08 at 07:41 PM
That's a really posh job!
David Jenkins - 2/2/08 at 07:45 PM
I've come up with one problem - the only place I can fix it is on the engine side of the bulkhead behind the pedals. This means that I
won't be able to lift the bottle out of the clip as it'll be under the brake master cylinder, etc.
Plan B is to make some form of bracket that will allow be to pull it out sideways... still, I enjoy a challenge... 
[Edited on 2/2/08 by David Jenkins]
Simon - 2/2/08 at 07:50 PM
David,
Very nice indeed.
And I was happy with my blanking plug for remnants of an old distributor (pics on blog later
).
ATB
Simon
roadrunner - 2/2/08 at 08:33 PM
big_wasa - 2/2/08 at 09:32 PM
hmmm
I will have to look up the screw cutting info on my lathe.
That bracket spoils it a touch imho
David Jenkins - 2/2/08 at 09:40 PM
The bracket's going anyway - it won't work (as I said in my last post). I'm planning some form of clip to hold it... watch this
space! 
adithorp - 3/2/08 at 11:46 AM
What you need is a side entry bottle cage.
http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/details.asp?D=P&Cat=BOTTLE%20CAGES&Section=BOTC&GenCode=ELITBOTC0700
There might be carbon ones but as you said that'd eat into your £250!!
adrian
