Rusty Bowtie
Miscellaneous => Outdoors Area: Hunting, Fishing, Firearms, Camping, Hobbies, Videos etc => Topic started by: TFoch on August 27, 2017, 08:08:46 PM
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A few years ago when my son and his wife had our first grandchild I built them a stroller. I started with a reproduction pedal car body and the first picture is what I came up with. Now that my daughter and her husband had our third grandchild, a little girl named Anna, I was asked to build a stroller for her. I started with a 30's style pedal car. First thing I did was remove all the pedal mechanism. Then I fabricated the lower bracket to mount the push handle.
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Now that I had the bracket cut I plug welded the 3/4" square tubing into the 1" and welded the angle cut. This will be where the 1" aluminum square tubing will mount as the push handle. Then I painted it and mounted it to the bottom frame work of the pedal car.
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Here it is with the push handle mounted. Next was to cut the lexan floor and mount it to the frame. After I cut it to size, I got to use a tool I bought to mount it. I bought a rivet nut tool and used it to mount the lexan floor to the frame.
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Outstanding fabrication.... Good looking stroller
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Nice Tom, good work!
Nice tool, I almost bought one a few years ago before I closed up shop.
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Looks good Tom...
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Nice job!
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Great stuff Tom, a lot flasher than the ones I built for the kid when she was younger.
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That's really great. The closest I got to doing one of those was when I saw your first project you built. Now my grandaughters are big enough for the powered units.
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That looks fantastic, Tom. Post the rest as you get to it, I'm gonna steal your plans for myself (although I hope I don't need to build one too soon). What made you choose lexan for the bottom?
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Thanks guys. I used lexan on both of them. The first one I painted the under side of the lexan so my granddaughter could scratch the top of it as she got in and out but the paint would still look good. I left this one clear because my son-in-law thought it would be cool if my granddaughter could watch the road as she cruises. I'll have some more updates soon.
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I had to cut out the rear part of the floor to clear the rear axle. I wanted to keep as much of the pedal mechanism in it so my daughter can convert it back to a pedal car when the kids get bigger. I also decided it needed some exhaust pipes so I cut up some chrome tubing I had lying around and made dual exhaust for each side. In the second picture I added a bolt and spacer on the right side to lock the steering so it goes straight.
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I'm sure the little one will be proud of it