T-Track Installation

This morning Jan mentioned “This is probably the first time in history someone has been gaoled and deported for not tasking drugs!”  To which I replied “In sport you only have to miss one shot to be knocked out of the tournament!”

The handlebar end of the ebike wiring loom is now complete.

In order to fit the brake sensors I used some sandpaper and roughed up the part of the brake lever where the sensor would fit.  Next I mixed some car body filler and used it to fill the gap underneath the sensor.  When the body filler had hardened I used a file to flatten and shape it.  At the time I didn’t have any black paint so I used a black felt tip pen to colour the grey filler.  Then Araldite was used to secure the sensor to the filler.

Fitting the motor, cranks and pedals was considered, but as the rivet nuts haven’t arrived from China it would mean the battery couldn’t be fitted.  I’d be left with a bike I couldn’t ride.  I’ll wait for the rivet nuts.

The postman did deliver a package from China.  However it contained the four T-Track junction pieces.  With little else to do I fitted the blue T-Track to the router top.

Annoyingly the expensive  router fence ordered from China hasn’t arrived.  The seller’s website claimed it had been deliver resulting in me raising a dispute and receiving a refund.  I’ve decided to take a cheaper option and make my own fence.

We know some people have purchased electric cars.  The distances here in Western Australia are so great I doubt it’s currently a viable option.  On the TV News last night there was a article about a new charging station at a roadhouse (moto) out on the vast Nullabor Plains which is the main east-west route linking West Australia to the eastern states.  A generator has been installed to recharge electric vehicles.  The fuel is waste cooking oil from the roadhouse kitchen.  It doesn’t make much sense to me to create internal combustion emissions in order to save the planet by driving an electric car.  The installer stated it would only take 20 litres of cooking oil to recharge a car.  The manager of the roadhouse then mentioned they produced 240 litres of waste cooking oil every month.  Do the maths.   240÷20=12.  That’s approximately one car recharge every three days.  You wouldn’t want to drive an electric car across the Nullabor on the off chance no other electric car had travelled in either direction during the previous two days.