{"id":544,"date":"2015-06-15T23:52:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T23:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/?p=544"},"modified":"2015-06-15T23:52:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T23:52:47","slug":"headlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"HeadLight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been putting off buying a headlight for some time as it’s such a focal point I think it’s worth spending a little time to get it right, it needed to be big to keep to the chunky theme but also simple so I plumped for this one, it’s 8 inch with a chrome surround and a black body, all metal, very British looking.<\/p>\n

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Needed to get a rough idea of the shape of the mounts so I got some cardboard and a sharpie and made a rough template.<\/p>\n

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Next decision was what to make the mounts from, no expense spared here as I butchered some twisted steel from a fancy fence, looks better on my bike, very 70’s.<\/p>\n

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It needed bending quite a bit but my ‘El Cheapo’ bender made short work of it.<\/p>\n

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Using a line on my table I was able to find the centre point.<\/p>\n

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I made a couple of stainless washers to join to the twisty fence metal, lined up with the centre marks from earlier.<\/p>\n

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First trial fitting and it looks OK!<\/p>\n

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I wedged it all in place to get a first look at how it should end up, may be pointing at the stars but proportions look alright.<\/p>\n

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The ends are made from some plate and tacked in place on the bike to make sure it all lines up when I put it back together.<\/p>\n

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I used a cramp to make sure the foot mounts stayed in place whilst I welded them up, worked quite well.<\/p>\n

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I think they turned out alright, I’m quite pleased with the overall look of them, quite simple but effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been putting off buying a headlight for some time as it’s such a focal point I think it’s worth spending a little time to get it right, it needed to be big to keep to the chunky theme but also simple so I plumped for this one, it’s 8 Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scavengers.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}