Hello Rat Rod friends-
I want to let everyone know that I will be providing a prize for this year's Build Off. I was inspired by the little graphic on the Pedal Power Speedforum shirt. On the side of the shirt, there is a little skull-n-crossbones made from a clover sprocket and 2 wrenches.
I decided to do a little project to render it in steel.
The trophy will go to the winner of the BuildOff. Could be something that is passed along to each year's winner.
The wood base is solid maple block. It was a piece recycled from a school that closed, apparently they gave away a large quantity of old building blocks and my neighbor picked them up. I smoothed and beveled and stained it.
The wrenches were found in the paper mill I work in. We make new paper from recycled boxes. All sorts of stuff ends up in the boxes- items from consumers and from big stores. I think they are assembly wrenches for snowblowers or garden tractors from a store like Home Depot. They survived our pulper, a 900 HP blender!
The upright is also a piece of chrome metal rod that survived our pulper in nice shape. One of our welder mechanics TIG welded 2 pieces to it so I could mount the other hardware. Then I threaded it and assembled it to the base.
The sprocket is from a Schwinn crankset dated 12/1964. It shows a bit of use but the chrome really shines.
I hope this inspires some great builds! You guys always amaze me with your creations. Best of luck this year and keep on Rattin'!
--Rob Bareiss, New London CT.
NLCTVWguy, RRB moderator
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I want to let everyone know that I will be providing a prize for this year's Build Off. I was inspired by the little graphic on the Pedal Power Speedforum shirt. On the side of the shirt, there is a little skull-n-crossbones made from a clover sprocket and 2 wrenches.
I decided to do a little project to render it in steel.
The trophy will go to the winner of the BuildOff. Could be something that is passed along to each year's winner.
The wood base is solid maple block. It was a piece recycled from a school that closed, apparently they gave away a large quantity of old building blocks and my neighbor picked them up. I smoothed and beveled and stained it.
The wrenches were found in the paper mill I work in. We make new paper from recycled boxes. All sorts of stuff ends up in the boxes- items from consumers and from big stores. I think they are assembly wrenches for snowblowers or garden tractors from a store like Home Depot. They survived our pulper, a 900 HP blender!
The upright is also a piece of chrome metal rod that survived our pulper in nice shape. One of our welder mechanics TIG welded 2 pieces to it so I could mount the other hardware. Then I threaded it and assembled it to the base.
The sprocket is from a Schwinn crankset dated 12/1964. It shows a bit of use but the chrome really shines.
I hope this inspires some great builds! You guys always amaze me with your creations. Best of luck this year and keep on Rattin'!
--Rob Bareiss, New London CT.
NLCTVWguy, RRB moderator
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