Archive for October, 2009

f/8, 1/80, ISO 200, 100mm (100mm macro lens). No flash.

Joseph Campbell came over last weekend to ride trials. He was mentioning how heavy the KH cranks are, so I told him we could quickly mill out some material. I took a deep pocket out of the bank of them and removed one ounce form each crank. The cranks started out at about 11 oz and ended up at 10 oz each.

The chips on my mill:

UPDATE: How about I spell “ounce” and not “once”.

I made this on Saturday out of aluminum: a machined adapter that lets me attach a v-brake to magura brake mounts of my unicycle.

The picture below (iPhone quality, sorry!) shows the first one, which was a little larger than #2. The hole for the spring is better on the second one.