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Step 48Chained Mudflaps

Chained Mudflaps
This Dumptruck has mudflaps hung from chain.
That way when the box gets dumped, the mudflaps don't get folded over and broken.

They didn't use regular log chain because then the mudflaps would fly from side to side on the highway.

These chunks of chain came from a giant bicycle ridden by monsters.
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Nov 8, 2009. 2:59 PMmasterochicken says:
Those chains on those mudflaps look like forklift chains to me.
May 29, 2011. 8:16 PMtjesse says:
No, a giant bicycle ridden by monsters. Can't you read.
Apr 27, 2009. 7:40 AMwhiteynut says:
The chain used is called roller chain, made in a large range of sizes.
Aug 23, 2007. 12:27 PMkillerjackalope says:
I knew a guy who built mudflap hangers from two hinges a couple of 2x4's and a coulp of planks but it rotted (wood +weather) so he cam up with riveting 2 bent piece of stell on the back and attaching the mudflap there but alas he got it wrong first time and reversed over the mudflaps but got it eventually all to save £30...

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Tim Anderson is the author of the "Heirloom Technology" column in Make Magazine. He is co-founder of www.zcorp.com, manufacturers of "3D Printer" output devices. His detailed drawings of traditional ...
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