One of my favourite (even more so than duct tape) DIY sekrit weapons is plumbers strapping. It typically looks like this:



Super strong, yet easy to cut with metal shears or bolt cutters and easy to bend by hand or with pliers. It comes in various widths and materials, such as mild steel, copper, and galvanized steel. Of interest for this project is the kind that is coated with PVC, so as to minimize scratching the finish on the handlebar.

The smaller holes should be big enough to get the threaded part of the screws through, but small enough for the heads not top slip through. You could also use washers with it too.

Maybe not very elegant to look at, but it should be secure enough until you find a 3D-printed one.

Or, you might get lucky and find one of these molded PVC pipe straps in the right diameter, or slightly bigger:

It should be on a shelf near the other kind of strap. If it's slightly bigger diameter then you can put a strip of inner tube rubber on the inside, or build it up with PVC tape.
[edit] Oops. It just occurred to me now that the part you are trying to replace fits around half the diameter of the handlebar, so it's only a half circle on the inside. The PVC pipe strap is designed to fit the full diameter of a pipe, so it's a half circle plus parallel extensions. A sheet metal one could be more easily bent to fit.

Oh - If you do have one printed, and it's printed with filament, have it be printed on its side (not upright like an arch), because the horizontal layers are more easily split than the other uh ... directions? ... dimensions?.
If it's a resin printer, then I have no idea.

Quote from: Ryan on April 15, 2024, 06:35:55 AMWe believe the attachments are all working now. Let me know if you continue to have issues.

They're baaaaack!


Thanks.

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Merely formatting text as a quote will also trigger the unlocated "attachments directory" error message.

I thought I might be able to fix the missing uploaded photos by uploading them again, but I still get this same error message:

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Oddly enough, the editor gave me the same error message for this post, which had no attachments.

My avatar disappeared, but it seems that all you have to do is resize it for a maximum of 65x65 pixels.

Quote from: Jack D on April 12, 2024, 11:01:56 AMThanks for chiming in.

No problem. I developed my troubleshooting process working (most recently) on 250 kiloWatt shortwave transmitters. Lotsa moving parts and high voltages there. Now that I'm retired it's difficult not to speculate what might be wrong with something.

Now it's pretending that my last post is "Rad's New Lineup Is Here".
If I try to delete it, my actual last post gets deleted.
Also, if I click at the "quote" button on the "Rad's New Lineup Is Here" post, then the quote is from my actual previous post. Rather disorienting.

Uh-oh. Photos in old posts return a "file not found" message.
For example - https://www.radowners.com/index.php/topic,9719.msg24710.html#msg24710

Also getting this red fault message in the editor, even if there aren't supposed to be any attachments (like in this post).

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On the other hand, we can now give temperatures because the degrees º symbol works. Yay!

What's the story on that arch thing over the canal, from 02:15 to 02:18?

Does the forward end just float there? It should be easy to fabricate a brace to the down tube.

Quote from: Jack D on April 10, 2024, 05:01:41 PM... Weird thing I did notice: The throttle and PAS both work as expected when the front brake connector is disconnected.  As soon as I reconnect the front brake connector - the intermittent issue begins again.

Oh, wait - that's the wrong side from the throttle for my theory to work. 
Still, it wouldn't hurt to make the adjustments and be sure.

I would focus on the brake handle switch before shelling out for a new controller, especially if the misbehaviour only happens when operating the throttle. It suggests a mechanical issue to me, and the throttle is in the same vicinity as the brake handle. Maybe something is bumping into something else.

There is a procedure for adjusting the cut-off switches in the brake handles, but I cannot find it at the moment.

Just because a thing is called something, there's no need to be stuck with using it only for that, right?

I dunno about that. You have to be able to lean into a turn, and a training wheel sort of thing would prevent that, since it could lift the other rear wheels off the road. You could slow right down every time so as not to have to lean as much, but then you lose momentum. E-bike with cadence sensor are already tricky enough to make slow tight turns on. A trike would be better, and training wheels do not make it like a trike.

Perhaps a sidecar ($$$$) or trailer ($) would be better for hauling the kids with a RadWagon.

You said "recently gifted" - it may just take a bit more practise getting used to it. Try practising with sandbags on the back or something.

Are you able to lower the seat enough to reach the road with both feet at the same time?

Is it a RadWagon 4 or RadWagon 5? The wheels on the RW5 are 2" smaller.

Do you mean new features of future new models, or new add-ons for existing models?