DIY Nitto rack hoop

[Jay Lonner]

One of the downsides of the Big Back Rack is that it doesn’t come with the tombstone/backstop feature that hooks so nicely into the leather patch designed for that purpose on my large SaddlesSack. I’m thinking of making one myself using daruma fixtures and a rack stay bent to fit. Does anybody have experience with this sort of fabrication? Can you get a nice radius bend with a bench vise and a soup can, or do you need a tubing bender? Alternatively — and this is a long shot — if anybody has an old or damaged rack with this feature, I’d be interested in buying it and trying my hand at a tombstone transplant.

Jay Lonner

Bellingham, WA

[Jay Lonner]

For those interested, here’s what I came up with. Bending an aluminum rack stay with an improvised mandrel was easy. Two p-clamps and two daruma fixtures rounded out the hardware, and the installation doesn’t even look all that kludgy. Fits the leather pocket on my SaddleSack like a glove. Pics attached, with bonus glimpses of my wife’s Cheviot in the background.

Jay Lonner

Bellingham, WA

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On Jul 12, 2023, at 11:02 AM, Jay Lonner <jay.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

One of the downsides of the Big Back Rack is that it doesn’t come with the tombstone/backstop feature that hooks so nicely into the leather patch designed for that purpose on my large SaddlesSack. I’m thinking of making one myself using daruma fixtures and a rack stay bent to fit. Does anybody have experience with this sort of fabrication? Can you get a nice radius bend with a bench vise and a soup can, or do you need a tubing bender? Alternatively — and this is a long shot — if anybody has an old or damaged rack with this feature, I’d be interested in buying it and trying my hand at a tombstone transplant.

Jay Lonner

Bellingham, WA

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Jay, 

Nice tombstone!  Not “kludgy” at all. Thanks for sharing 

Dustin 

On Jul 20, 2023, at 11:05 PM, Jay Lonner <jay.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

For those interested, here’s what I came up with. Bending an aluminum rack stay with an improvised mandrel was easy. Two p-clamps and two daruma fixtures rounded out the hardware, and the installation doesn’t even look all that kludgy. Fits the leather pocket on my SaddleSack like a glove. Pics attached, with bonus glimpses of my wife’s Cheviot in the background.

Jay Lonner

Bellingham, WA

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On Jul 12, 2023, at 11:02 AM, Jay Lonner <jay.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

One of the downsides of the Big Back Rack is that it doesn’t come with the tombstone/backstop feature that hooks so nicely into the leather patch designed for that purpose on my large SaddlesSack. I’m thinking of making one myself using daruma fixtures and a rack stay bent to fit. Does anybody have experience with this sort of fabrication? Can you get a nice radius bend with a bench vise and a soup can, or do you need a tubing bender? Alternatively — and this is a long shot — if anybody has an old or damaged rack with this feature, I’d be interested in buying it and trying my hand at a tombstone transplant.

Jay Lonner

Bellingham, WA

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[JohnS]

Thanks for sharing Jay! I'll have to remember that combination of daruma and p-clamps, very creative solution. Looks great to me.

JohnS