Making your own: The one-eyed rabbit

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For the third point of suspension of the Cannier, we use a piece of metal plate screwed to the clamp that stays fixed on the rack. The quick release on the Cannier slides into the opening of this plate, and locks them together.

Tools

The shape of the rabbit, as we make it, was given by the necessity to make it work with racks of any shape. If you make it for your own rack, then it can have a simple shape that can be produced with a drill and an angle grinder.

Prime material

Use a piece of metal plate 2 mm to 3 mm thick. Most hardware stores have ready drilled plates, which are a good start, but the holes will probably not fit.

Marking the holes and the cut

Mount the clamp on the rack tube and hold the plate next to it. Find a position in which, after screwing the plate on the clamp, you would be able to draw the opening in a 20-degree angle above horizontal. Before finalizing the cut for the opening, mount it with the holes ready, and check the angle again. The cut should be 6,2 mm wide.

When you make your own rabbit-substitute you will not have to follow any of these references (there won't be any), instead you should measure the opening's angle compared to a horizontal plane and set it to 20 degrees... upwards.

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Prime material

Use a piece of metal plate 2 mm to 3 mm thick. Most hardware stores have ready drilled plates, which are a good start, but the holes will probably not fit.

Marking the holes and the cut

Mount the clamp on the rack tube and hold the plate next to it. Find a position in which, after screwing the plate on the clamp, you would be able to draw the opening in a 20-degree angle above horizontal. Before finalizing the cut for the opening, mount it with the holes ready, and check the angle again. The cut should be 6,2 mm wide.