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<\/p>\nI pulled the trigger on a SendCutSend order yesterday, after adjusting the template, cutting it out in full scale on some chipboard, and testing my measurements. For some reason I’d gotten one measurement wrong, and I had to adjust the length of the mounting plate, but after adjusting that the whole thing went together perfectly. I’m having this cut out of 16 gauge steel so it should be plenty strong to hold up to any kind of accidents. It should be here in a couple of weeks, and then I can weld the pieces up.<\/p>\n
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If I was to order ten of these, I could get the costs way down per piece. If I could get ten people interested in buying them, I could possibly make a little money on the deal. I think the biggest issue would be finding a way to attach the unit without drilling into the seat bar. I’ll have to have a think about that one.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, I’ve been putting a list of projects together for 2025, and it’s almost done. One of the things on the list was pretty easy to check, so I looked it over at lunchtime: My brake pedal doesn’t light the brake lights when it’s pressed. It’s a very simple system. There’s a switch at the end of the master cylinder, and when the pedal pressurizes the cylinder, it closes the switch, activating the brake lights. Pulling the wire connector off the cylinder, I used a wire to jump it and verified the brake lights work. So there’s got to be an issue with the master cylinder itself. If I recall correctly, I swapped the old switch onto the new unit<\/a>, so it might just be a matter of ordering a new switch unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I pulled the trigger on a SendCutSend order yesterday, after adjusting the template, cutting it out in full scale on some chipboard, and testing my measurements. For some reason I’d gotten one measurement wrong, and I had to adjust the length of the mounting plate, but after adjusting that the whole thing went together perfectly. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-travelall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1i0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}