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Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

ding ding

#bikebell

October 12, 2026 at 3:47 AM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

purble (round one)

#bikebell

a chrome bike bell with one coat of purple anodising paint

October 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

round three purbler

#bikebell

October 11, 2026 at 9:53 PM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

purble (round two)

#bikebell

same bell but now more purple than before

October 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

I'm still trying to figure out what image to print and put on top. Maybe an agility spider? I dunno!

#bikebell

October 12, 2026 at 3:54 AM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

i think this is enough for now I can add more later if I want

#bikebell

October 11, 2026 at 9:54 PM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

purble and black (on the underside)

much more modern

#bikebell

the bell reassembled with the purple bell part and a newly back enamel undercarriage

October 12, 2026 at 3:44 AM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

of course the REAL pending question is

will it hold together?

i mean this is the best plastic epoxy I've got with pretend rebar going all the way through but it's still _mostly_ epoxy and... well... fingers crossed I guess?

#bikebell

October 12, 2026 at 3:58 AM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

And I made this staple (to snip shorter later), to put through the assembly, and fill all the intentional remaining gaps with as much more epoxy as I could cram into it.

#bikebell #diy

An oversized wire staple made of round wire. The cross part is bent to match the circular curve of the plastic handlebar attachment piece.

October 11, 2026 at 3:14 AM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

But I'm worried about curved roughed up plastic on stepped plastic on flat(ish) metal for obvious reasons, even if it's the best plastic epoxy I've found so far, right?

So I came up with the idea of more or less rebar to go through all three objects and drilled holes:

The de-rusted metal base, spraypainted with silver stop-rust, with two new holes that go through all the new parts of the bell, one on each side of the central threaded shaft that holds the actual bell itself.

October 11, 2026 at 3:12 AM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

So that old-fashioned bike bell I found before, right?

This is the base of the bell with the old all-metal handlebar attachment completely removed and a new one expoxied onto a matched 3D printing bridge which is also expoxied into the base of the bell holder.

#bikebell #diy

A disc of metal with a screw-threaded post sticking up that the bell itself will screw onto later, then a chunk of white plastic and then a plastic handlebar attachment, all held together with epoxy, on a wooden workbench surface.

October 11, 2026 at 3:09 AM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

And that's where we are now more or less. Since the attachment ring has a rubber liner (not shown in photos) I figure it can stick out a little on the ring side since it'll be padded by the rubber liner.

#bikebell #diy

The disc again but with the drilled holes filled by epoxy and wire to serve as rebar.

A somewhat hard to parse shot of the inside of the plastic ring which attaches the whole thing together and the wire taped over to hold it in place with the epoxy hardens overnight.

October 11, 2026 at 3:18 AM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

but well first thing is to clean it all up and put every relevant part into the evaporust

and now we let it sit overnight ^_^

#bikebell

October 2, 2026 at 6:02 AM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

do I want to paint it?

I might want to paint it

i could paint it purple

is spray metallic purple a thing? i would like that to be a thing

#bikebell #BikeTooter #improvement

October 2, 2026 at 5:37 AM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

oh dang it’s totally not! it just unscrews!

mmmmm rusty

#bikebell #BikeTooter

the bell mechanism on the left with the unscrewed bike bell dome on the right, upside down, showing a lot of surface rust

October 2, 2026 at 5:36 AM

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy

well well well apply directly to chrome xD

#bikebell #paint #carpaint #metalpaint

dupli-color metalcast 11 ounce purple spray paint MC204 - $15.99. the cap colour on the can hopefully reflects the anodized result described in the writeup (not shown). rated 4.4 out of 5 with 59 comments. US$15.99

October 2, 2026 at 6:01 AM

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@hn100.bsky.social

First bikebell against noise-canceling headphones

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April 17, 2026 at 7:08 AM

Steven Lucy

@slucy.bsky.social

I'm going to try something like this this year.

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November 15, 2024 at 2:16 PM

Shona MacLean

@shonamaclean.bsky.social

Getting my achievements in early today: fitting a new bike bell (gifted a couple of years ago by Inverness Festival of Walking and Wheeling and at last brought into play now that my old one's croaked its last). May spend the rest of the day admiring its shinyness.