Looks like you could fabricate it from some scraps of rubber conveyor belt material if you can find some or possibly from the sidewall of a large truck tire.
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Looks like you could fabricate it from some scraps of rubber conveyor belt material if you can find some or possibly from the sidewall of a large truck tire.
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Looks like a catastrophe waiting to happen.
Do you really want to take a chance of whatever you are hauling ending up all over the highway to save a few buck$?
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Bingo...........
Rick Potter
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FWW wannabe.
AKA Village Idiot.
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Duct tape could be part of this solution. It might make for a good story later.
Sharp solves all manner of problems.
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Got the trailer for Free and you Need to spend $60 it fix it? Really.
Retired Guy- Central Iowa.HVAC/R , Cloudray Galvo Fiber , -Windows 10
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Would you spend infinitely more to repair something than you paid for it?
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What if it needed tires?Originally Posted by Doug Garson
Would you spend infinitely more to repair something than you paid for it?
This sounds like if someone gave you a car for free but it was out of gas, it would just sit in you yard until you could find gas for free.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Now you're getting it.
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I found a 70’s vintage Kirby Vacuumat a thrift store. I pointed out that there was no beater bar. I offered them $2 because the cord was in new condition. The beater bar was $16.Would you spend infinitely more to repair something than you paid for it?
I was in the shop cleaning it up when a friend called me.
friend: “What are you up to?”
me: “I’m polishing my Kirby.”
friend: “Oh, is that what they’re calling it these days?”
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I would fabricate a metal clamp around rubber. That way if the rubber fails it will rattle a little and not kill anyone.
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Seems like it should of had that piece from the factory.
In the first picture, the pieces on the left, that look like the curved strap.... are they metal or just rubber?
You could just use George's metal strap and some nested radiator hoses of differenr t diameters. That is almost my plan for my planer cart suspension.
Bill D
Last edited by Bill Dufour; 10-03-2023 at 3:21 PM.
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Just rubber. There is a capacity of 200 pounds and they must figure the rubber is plenty strong for that.
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Being a "woodworker", I was going to put a wood block above the strap taking up most of the room. If the strap breaks it can't go very far.
If it would prevent a future cost of liability / repair that I cannot guess at . . . probably.Would you spend infinitely more to repair something than you paid for it?
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg".
– Samuel Butler
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So your driving down the road towing your rebuilt with a 2 hole conduit clamp and used radiator hose trailer and it comes apart... on the road. It sways a bit comes loose and then hits the car alongside, killing a kid in the back and wrecking that car. I wonder if saving that $60 was worth it?
Retired Guy- Central Iowa.HVAC/R , Cloudray Galvo Fiber , -Windows 10
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