That thing I posted a while back, more stuff on it. Bag has the pump and shower head ( https://www.flextail.com/en-ca/products/max-shower).

Shower was Xmas gift from good friends Simon and Maria. Works very well testing it at home .

I went down this silly rabbit hole about a month ago. I thought it would be easy to make a pair of door latch surrounds. Well it wasn’t , made mistake after mistake. Finally got something that works, but it sure wasn’t worth the effort.

Yes, there are aftermarket aluminum versions. I think it’s uniwerks that sells some UK made units. That set includes the trigger and the trigger mount. I chose to try and use the stock trigger and mount, and that was a huge part of my problem.

Pics show some of my attempts, including 3d prints. And my final attempt, the “good enough, I’m not gonna waste any more time” , powder coated and on the door.

Started fooling with this about 4 years ago then I lost interest. Was more of a design exercise than anything else. I had this notion of a spacer set up, keyed to the handle…. Blah blah…

I don’t have a broach to cut the internal splines so I did a kludge by drilling small holes then boring a boring with a slight taper. Seems to work, but I haven’t used handles much.

The knobs are delrin, and a bearing pressed and glued into handle. That part of the experiment works well.

I think I’ll revisit this project soon and do a bent handle for more clearance. I’ll keep the delrin knob as I like that better than the knurled knob on the GW handles ( been using them for a year, I find the knurled knob kinda not great).

Another thing I’ve been playing with. And I’ve posted about them but they deserve their own post .

Machined aluminum handles for front door. Yeah, there are some for sale on the market still, I think. Syncrotimes https://www.syncrotimes.com/

They do an anodized version for a crazy low price. Check them out.

Anyway, back to me .

I’m not a fan of “billet” aluminum things. Maybe it’s because I’m matching aluminum all day and I really don’t want to see it all the time 🙂

Plus they are cold, or hot depending on the weather, to the touch.

But I made these. Solid and ones with holes. And once they are powder coated, by golly I like them. Don’t seem as cold once painted.

It’s a two set up operation for machining as you can see in the pics.. Then I tumbled them, and painted some. I left a pair of the solid versions unpainted , polished the tumbled finish and wondering if I should try a partial leather wrap .

Notice I’m only using the two large screws that go into the plastic insert in the door. The smaller screws are not needed.

I posted about them a few weeks ago but decided to post again by themselves .

Something I’ve been working on , on and off since summer. I’ve tried out various styles but I like the rectangular recessed ones best.

They are 1/4” 5052 aluminum, machined, bent, then powder coated. Held onto the stock pedal ( after the plastic stock pads are removed) by cross bars top and bottom, m4 socket headed cap screws. The bars go behind the pedal.

I’ve had a pair of non painted, raw aluminum ones on van since summer. There’s no problem with a wet foot slipping off pedal .

Pics show a sample of the designs I tried, the ones in the van, and the powder coated ones I’m going with.

Yes I’m going to make a few to sell.