Hulsroy's Hustle

It wasn't Bruce Willis Die Hard cool. It really was more stressed out dad putting aside all safety procedures and fucking up stupid

It definitely was not designed for sniffing and glueing your pointy finger to your thumb

Thx

It is really a stupid situation, a reminder that almost everything online is so fragile a lives shorter than a compact disc. I enjoy reading here once in a week and see the progress in building techniques and automation ideas (that I like most, feels like looking at Henry Ford in a Garage haha). Also the look and feels of LFGSS is awesome simple, in contrast to Discord, or other forum applications. Really sad to expect an end to it =(

Always have a coke at hand when you are applying superglue ;)

Yeah, I guess there's nothing cool about trying to cut your finger off. Hope it heals up quickly.

Getting there

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nope! tall tale. Invented by Kodak (Eastman Tennessee technically) while they were looking for materials to make jet canopies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate. Wiki says its safe? ish to use medically but it also looks like it might be a slightly different compound for medical use.

It's definitely safe in the quantities used to seal small wounds under minimal tension. Very common in Emergency Depts around the country. It comes with a mini sponge cap to help application, like you'd see on bottles of carpet cleaner.

Low profile bottle cage position adapter

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Considering making this a product. Should help some folks out there.

Will get some nice wide foot nuts for it and some taller stainless spacers rather than using three stacked washer.
This is a prototype for a Fairlight owne. Hopefully it works on those frames

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^ This was literally half an hour's work before going home.

The rest of the day I did this. The wishbone is stuck onto the frame tomorrow is di2 ports and brake mount and a bit of sanding.

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Looking good!

I know it would be a lot more work, and it may not provide sufficient thread for engagement, but would having the thread bit that’s currently washers be threaded so a low profile bolt can be used rather than having the nut?

Does that make sense?

It would never work as a product i think. People would fuck up the frame by using too long bolts or strip the threads.
I think this will be great with some nice looking nuts.

There are already great adapters out there. This specific adapter is just for those niche people wanting something that matches my cages and needs mega low stack

looks great :)

Socket sleeve nut?

Det kan du selv være!

It won't be as low profile as this with a socket sleeve nut.

Is fastening the cages with a nut really that ugly/annoying?

I was going to sell them with two of these:

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I think, when I saw it on Instagram, I thought it was just different, not ugly. When you're used to the usual cap head bolt, seeing a nut there instead feels wrong, somehow?
As you say, if someone wants an ultra low profile solution then I'm sure they'll accept the tiny aesthetic difference.
When in animation school at uni I frequently tapped washers to make armature parts for stop-motion. Even when tightening pretty carefully these stripped regularly, so I feel like bike mechs/owners would 100% do so.

True, and true.

I guess its not ugly if bolt ends nicely chamfered, and the nuts are posh enough?

Once upon a time had a stash of these beautiful low profile stainless m5 nuts that had their shoulders chamfered off, so were very low stack, and sort of domed. Really helpful as no idea what to even google for

Bit like this, but deeper and more chamfer

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Have you considered dome nuts?

Almost like deeper hex version of this

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Aren't they 'lock nuts'?

Its just a chamfered low profile nut. Think what I had was a specific machines parts or possibly marine specialty sort of thing (ie for not snagging sails / spinnaker). It was old stock from my old man’s work so could be either