02-08-2020, 09:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-08-2020, 09:39 PM by Ian Williams.)
There is one big failing in the design as drawn Jon: once assembled you will never get the column back apart as you have soldered onto the top of fixed tube preventing the column passing over it when assembling and dissembling, you may not get the steering wheel over it either.
If you use the bottom nut/fixed tube from a Mk1 Ruby steering column these have a clamp to hold the horn tube which passes down the centre of the column, the top of one of these could be adapted as drawn and would allow assembly. You may find if you have an earlier 29 type column which is longer than the Mk1 Ruby type that the horn tube is too short, if so a longer one can be obtained from a Big 7 column which could be cut down to fit.
If you use the bottom nut/fixed tube from a Mk1 Ruby steering column these have a clamp to hold the horn tube which passes down the centre of the column, the top of one of these could be adapted as drawn and would allow assembly. You may find if you have an earlier 29 type column which is longer than the Mk1 Ruby type that the horn tube is too short, if so a longer one can be obtained from a Big 7 column which could be cut down to fit.
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