...that I indulged in another little bit of silliness today (just because we can).
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With the TIG welder now out of service for the moment I decided to make a little brace for the rack to prevent the load on the rack potentially spreading the rack apart.
Normally the bottom of a rack would be bolted to the rear-wheel drop-outs and this "spreading" would not be a problem. But with this area of the rack suspended and hanging there in space there is nothing to bolt it to, so another solution had to be found.
So I got "lathe-boy" out of the cupboard where I normally keep him in his gimp-suit and he turned a section of 8mm steel bar down to 6mm at either end and threaded the ends.
Once cleaned up of all the oil & grease and slapped around with a hairy-stick and some hammerite the job was all done.