Thanks for sharing. Great way to reuse junk mail. On Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 9:49:51 PM UTC-4 steve...@gmail.com wrote:
> Laing, I like your technique! Thanks for sharing. > > BTW, I'd enjoy seeing a pic of that Bombadil when you get the fenders on. > > Steve in AVL > > On Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 6:39:30 PM UTC-4 lconley wrote: > >> Honjo H-95, 65mm wide, going on my Bombadil with 650B x 57 Schwalbe G-One >> ALLROUND tires. >> >> Laing >> >> On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 1:51 PM neal...@gmail.com <neal...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Nice little trick! >>> What fenders are those? The width looks huge! >>> >>> On Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 7:25:26 AM UTC-6 lconley wrote: >>> >>>> One of the most nerve-wracking parts of installing metal fenders is >>>> drilling the holes - finding the centerline of the fender for centered >>>> holes, and evenly spacing double holes for the fender stay darumas on wide >>>> fenders. >>>> I have started using thin cardboard from junk mail: >>>> [image: Fender install1.jpg] >>>> Find a nice white area on the edge and cut a little wide, retaining one >>>> square corner. Thin as necessary to fit inside the fender, using another >>>> leftover corner as a square for the trimming. >>>> [image: Fender install2.jpg] >>>> With the cardboard out of the fender, a ruler can be used to find the >>>> center, marked in red above. The ruler was also used for the blue marks >>>> for >>>> the twin stay daruma holes. The black magic marker on the fender is used >>>> so >>>> that I can see the scratches from the awl to mark where to use the center >>>> punch. >>>> >>>> Laing Conley >>>> Delray Beach FL >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/bdc816ab-755a-471e-83eb-36a1b1e8169an%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/bdc816ab-755a-471e-83eb-36a1b1e8169an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/50e8f870-6b1c-4cb4-a6ee-6b4654f11cc9n%40googlegroups.com.
