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My Modified Powerchair Footplate -
part 3
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Start
(looking at the mess! And sorting it all out starts) |
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Part 2
(On board four stroke petrol power begins!) |
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Part
3 (The modified smaller lighter
footplate design continued) |
NEW POWERCHAIR FOOTPLATE!
 This
is basically all the parts I made today ready to fit in
place of those awful "swing away" footplates that most
chairs seem to be lumbered with. Its LIGHTER,
SMALLER, NEATER, and is rubber mounted so as to give me less
muscle spasm over all the bumps!
Click for
a bigger view.
 Its
all alloy, and
stainless steel,
including these black parts. I hate steel, its too heavy,
and it rusts...
This has the
rubber block highlighted so you can see how this part
mounts.
It bolts on where
you remove the heavy iron kerb climber (that doesn't work!)
- giving a neater mounting point.
These black bits were stolen from the old footplates. They
(as well as that shiny aluminium bar) go UNDER the footplate
of course! But I need to drill some holes and tap them
all M8 yet, and the pubs open. The "rose joint" (the
swively thing with a ball) will screw into another 15mm
diameter polished alloy bar so that it can support the
weight of my legs and the footplate. The shaped alloy
block was also stolen from the old footplates, as I liked
it! (above) And could reuse it.
 This
connects to the seat frame using another bigger rubber block
from a gearbox mounting on a car or something.
It holds everything up.
Looks expensive!
But its not, a bit of metal polish and an old lathe is all
you need to make these bars. The ball, rose, or
rod-end "spherical" joints are not quite as cheap though!
Still a damned site cheaper than the bits it replaces
though... And miles better.
The rubber blocks
were just scrounged from a local fast fit exhaust depot.
More soon!
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