Framing a HOVER-CRATE

 I has been a while since my last post.Almost 4 month went by, normally i would catch myself reminiscing on the past year and looking forward up on the coming during winter and the holidays. However it took unit the first day of spring to continue to write this addition. The general layout of the frame design was done in Pro Engineer, and it looked virtual like this.

It was really easy to take measurements from this design and cut all the sections from the square tube. Like i have done before, i did most of the work with the hack-saw and the file. Somehow it's a form of meditation to me. Scraping the metal down to my own desired shape. 

All layout out and taped up it looks like this.

Please notice the 2 steering knuckles which i made on the lathe. i also cheated and use a holesaw on the drill-press in order to fit in the knuckles. 
The small rectangle on the left is should fit over the hoverboard, and mate up to the mounting points of the motor shaft clams. the small square will mate to the bottom of a typical beer-crate. 
I laid the longer tubes across, giving the correct angle to the front axle and adding some stiffness to the frame. As my welding skills are on a equal level to my programming skills my dad came over to weld this all together.

In typical exited mode, i couldn't resist and layout all parts on the intended location to see how they occupy their space. it looked stout, but something seemed off.

 So it was time for a royal fitment

In front of my life's work, my son is taking a trail seat with some help of my neighbor from across the road. It was obvious to me to move the crate back. This balanced out the look and created footrests. Clearly indicating this was meant to be like this, and i made a mistake in CAD.

Now everything was clear, the scooter (or step in dutch) sacrificed its handle bar and headtube. A support hanging off the footrest was welded in place. With threaded bushings to bolt this tube to the assembly after painting.

The steering knuckles needed spindles to fit the castor wheels. In this stage the ackermann effect is achieved by correctly angling the angle on the knuckle and spindle. Also i fitted a bumper / lift handle.

Also the triangulated side skirts are fabbed up from angle iron, their goal is to make it difficult for the driver to drive over their own feet keep in mind its intended as a toy for kids. The hoverboard mount were fabbed up also, from square tube, making for a rigid connection to the clamping bolt.
 

Afterwards it placed some tabs to bolt the crate on to its location and rolled out my contraption in order to admire it in daylight.

It looked spot on, something you either could race and hoon-around on or use as a toy. As there are already multiple new projects brewing while writing this, i'll ad a post on adding the fluff to make it look nice and use able.