BEX Reverse Trike

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Per Mark BEX ....

Exciting news for me, but sorry to say I am away for 4 days.

I am going to Xinjiang, not as tourist, but a business trip for Rong, and it's very close to the famous "4 Borders" of China, Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan.

Burqin County to be exact. ..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burqin...xNBKZPfKVEv5Cc

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Because this trip happened suddenly, I left the factory today without taking pictures.

The front suspension is fully mounted, and the 2 x main engine mounts are done.

Starting to look like something again, but this time with production specific pieces going into it.

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and I am back ...

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SDAs I mentioned, I got the front suspension mounted before I went away on my trip, but forgot to take pictures, and today got the main engine mounts finalised.

Unfortunately I have to fly to Beijing tomorrow, but it's only for one day.

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Back again.

Trip to Beijing was for 2 reasons, and one of them was to help secure the BEX's financial future of which talks went well.

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I've always liked the concept of rivnuts, which are tube nuts that are crushed fitted into a hole, but in the real world they have a tendency to work loose and spin in the hole while tightening them. It's also a big issue to remove them when needing to repair, as drilling them out is a pain because they spin with the drill in the hole and damage the hole.

However, recently I noticed hex shaped rivnuts that can not spin in a hex hole, and you all know the ease I have with producing parts with the laser cutter, so it's logical to move to these as a joining method, and here is my test of this method today ..

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The hex will allow me to use Loctite on the bolts for extra security, whereas I would never use Loctite on a bolt in a round rivnut, that's just courting disaster.

I've repaired my fair share of spun rivnuts, it's painful, that's why i have never considered using them until I noticed the hex type.

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Anyway, another slight delay in the process, I'm off to Australia for a couple of weeks for both business and see my family whom I haven't seen in 3 years due to Covid.

I apologise for the delay, but I got the chance to go so I'm taking it, I will still be in contact here though.