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Old 12-17-2015, 05:47 PM   #42 (permalink)
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hold-downs/tricycle

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I always wanted a grease pit that had a hinged ladder at one end and when you lift it up these an entrance to a Secret Tunnel system.

At the recyclers today I got a nantenna for $6.40 that has 10ea 4ft pieces of aluminum tubing between 7/16ths and 9/8ths inch diameter. I'm planing on a tubing frame with luan plywood fill panels. Can you describe the wheel hold-down system?



At permalink #24 the track is given as 24.4 inches.

Can they accommodate a tricycle?
The hold-downs are a steel trough with 45-degree bent-up tabs which cradle the tire.These tabs are slotted to allow 3" ratchet-straps to be attached,which surround the front tires and hold them to the trough under tension.
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For a tricycle,I believe that the single wheel would have to be attached to a spar which would span far enough to reach the nearest troughs.My model will have to be done this way,fore and aft.
They may have to do a run just to measure the drag of the spars.
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