I am sure that spring fever has got a hold of me. Over the last few days I have decided to build a stand for my bike as I have decided that I need to get in better shape.
The first ride I took after building the bike was good but the bike needed some tweaking and I got tired of kneeling to do so.
This photo is where I left off yesterday but, overnight I decided it needed some changes so that it would be more use full to me.
This piece had to be coped to fit well onto the 2.5" tubing I am using for the vertical stanchion portion of the stand, it is the receiver for the rotating addition .
after some cutting and drilling all the pieces fit together and are ready to b prepped to weld.
Here all 7.00$ of parts are ready to weld and are laid out on the fab table for a photo !
Here is the fit up which is not as good as I had hoped but the welds ran just fine as the following picture will show. This is mild steel 1/8" wall I used a 1.5% 3/32 lanthanated tungsten for these welds.
The usual attachment to the table via receiver .
I could not be happier with the end result it rotates and clamps and is very stable , when I have some more energy to weld I will add some support so that it can handle heavier bicycles but, for now it is ideal.
Rotated and level , pretty good build for 7 bucks in parts .
HAPPY WELDING !!!
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