AlexAndChristine : photos : Porteur Rack : This is the design that I came up with and which we started from. The green shows a standard Nitto M12. The red shows the add-on Porteur rack. In the final design we changed to three mounting points instead of four.- powered by SmugMug

A Porteur conversion rack for the Nitto M12. This is being built by Alistair Spence for my Kogswell P/R. I'm helping with a little of the brazing and we worked together on the design.

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AlexAndChristine > This is the design that I came up with and which we started from. The green shows a standard Nitto M12. The red shows the add-on Porteur rack.

In the final design we changed to three mounting points instead of four.

AlexAndChristine > Alistair's photo of creating the deck using a tubing bender.

AlexAndChristine > The completed deck after bending all four corners. Photo by Alistair.

AlexAndChristine > Fluxing the joint before tacking.

AlexAndChristine > Aligning the joint for tacking the support piece.

AlexAndChristine > Alex's first brazing job. Alistair did the right side of this joint and I did the left.

AlexAndChristine > My second brazed joint. It looks like I overheated the flux.

This is the design that I came up with and which we started from. The green shows a standard Nitto M12. The red shows the add-on Porteur rack.

In the final design we changed to three mounting points instead of four.