Anne & Steve,
Was sitting here thinking about sidecars, sociables & such and those very neat little universal sidecar clamps. As Anne would say, they are the "bees knees". Unfortunately they are also expensive. I was trying to picture in my mind something self made that would serve the same function. What about those split collars which I'll be using for engine mounts on my "kindalieawhizzer" build and which proved to be so useful for mounting both the engine and jack shaft assembly on the Elgin Velocipede build? They are rock solid and reasonably priced. Of course they also have to be modified by welding metal to it for bolting down an engine or such. So, say we have the split collar and welded to one half section is a bit of angle iron with a hole drilled to hold an eye bolt which can swivel to receive an arm coming from the sidecar. That would do the same thing as the universal sidecar clamp, wouldn't it? And for less than $10.00 per mount (The last ones I ordered came to about 8.00 each including shipping). Three mounts would come to some labor at cutting, welding and drilling plus roughly $30.00 for split collars and eye bolts. That's $20.00 less than the cost of one of the Universal clamps from England... and that's not even counting what the shipping from England would come to. What do you think?
SB
