should roll cages be built woth tubes or pipes evom

I am looking to refine a design I came up with when my leg was first amp'ed. Just being able to touch something or know that it is there is somehow conducive to being able to move more freely. even something I KNOW is flimsy-is for some reason 'comforting'. I might be able to say that for me the feeling that there is ANYTHING at all back there-a wall, a seat. I noticed that you said he 'Likes the back piece to bump him'. This is a great idea-I am not at all familiar with your sons condition but I am a 1 and a 1/2 amputee-left lower leg and half of right foot-with as you can imagine balance issues. And I almost fergit, you can buy fixture parts that are threaded tubes, and then one nut each side will lock the tube in place (all bitching aside? ok ok that was silly) hope the ideas prove helpful, great project here is a site that shows the cars I speak of

There are very expensive wheels that you can buy that are soft rubber huge and even better, but this project will be such a cool thing to build and maybe (unfortunately) pass on to another. If you have access to lotsa bike parts (old rims with axles) you can do much much better then that. so then the the wheel experience no mangle the walker assemble also is mangle free. benefit to this is you can bitch bolt the wheel to the bolt then place through the tube using washers allowing for nylon washers and also bitch bolted in place. I was taught it by an olden wizzen Machinist in Brooklyn, who I never ever heard curse(even when wacking a thumb). I do apologize for that term, it is the only term I know for it. You can either ream the tubes at both open end so they can't fall out or use doubled nuts, (counter twisted to each other) on the 'axle' (both sides) so it can never move. This results in nicer rolling no mangling of the plastic pipe. You can put sleeves of brass tubing into the holes the axles (wheel bolts ) go into. if you glue a strip of inner tube rubber on each wheel they will work nicely on concrete. the wheels are huge and will do well on sand (displacement of pressure over sand is greater then the wheels you used). The electric motor kind, when the batts die or the plastic sun fades people chuck'm at the dump, or in regular trash. I hope I am since I'm joining my siblings at the Jersey shore in 2 weeks!!Ĭool project, for the beech use the wheels off a kids riding car.

I will try and post at least a photo if I am successful. A PVC beach walker would be fine but they don't include seats, which is why the rollator is important to use. SO I am left trying to make this dolly for the rollator to sit on top of. I took it to the manufacturer of running chairs to push a grown disabled member in marathons etc(Hoyt Running Chairs) to see if there was a way to remove the traditional wheels and put on beach wheels. Since you had Owen put the glue on, I'm guessing it has gotten less toxic? Also, you might want to tell people that by 'slip', I'm assuming the connectors have that little ridge inside, like a 'stop' to insert the pipe so it doesn't go in too far, right? I am planning on making a PVC dolly with enlarged beach wheels for my rollator to sit on, so I can go through soft sand at the beach. At that time, the glue had a horrendous smell. This looks great, mom!! You did a GREAT JOB!!! Before my disability, I made a PVC standing rack for my 17' sea kayak.

Should roll cages be built woth tubes or pipes evom