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Recumbent Tadpole Trike: Posts on Velomobilforum p.1

I am again looking at a DIY Tadpole Trike. Perhaps this time I can manage to do a little bit of writing without this system crashing and deleting my work.    I am going to make this particular chapter a part of the ongoing forum exchanges with the Velomobilforum online. This is a German forum so I believe I will post there in German and here in American. This way if someone on that forum wishes to view this in English they can and anyone viewing here at the blog can follow along. I will use a translation program to interchange. Google translate or something similar will be doing the machine translation since I do not speak German. https://www.velomobilforum.de/forum/index.php?threads/eigenbau-xyz-spaceframe-vehicle.33109/page-24 is where this conversation is currently being held.   This forum is the best I was able to find for working on the n55 space frame tadpole trike. The trike is a sport version of a cargo trike built in Europe for moving loads. See picture below.  

Ongoing Projects... AKA updates

Ongoing Projects... AKA updates Continuing to work on the drill press table but Christmas, traveling to Iowa to visit relatives, cold weather, and supply issue have conspired to slow the work. I had to order more miter slot hardware and with the Christmas rush it took awhile to get here but as usual Peachtree woodworking came through. This is full sized miter slot channel with a t-slot for fixturing so it is worth the wait. Hopefully I can get more done soon and wrap up the drill table. I am revisiting the adjustable workbench to put a new and more accurately bored top on it. I have a jig made in England on a CNC machine that should allow me to get the accuracy I want. The accuracy and precision that was sadly lacking in my first attempt on the big adjustable workbench. I will eventually post pictures of the bench before and after as well as the jig and any issues with it. (Hey it took time to find a solution and more time to get all the stuff together... sigh) I am still