Hi there, Mick.

Thanks for the response. One of your carts was what I had in mind all this time; it's right here in my pile of projects to do (so many projects, so little beer...) It is 'Smorgasbord a la Cart' (5a-dwg9/13), posted here 10/1/99 (#17660, I think). So it's been almost 2 years, and that probably means I just wasn't going to do it anytime soon. Luckily, I don't have to portage much.

: there's an awfull lot of rotational stress on the legs just at the central
: spine of these, so consider adding the tiniest of struts each side from
: around the wheel axle up to the side of the back webbing strap( i think
: some pple have had failures b/c of this).

This image shows the thing a little better. Front is to the right. Are you saying I need another strut on each side from, say, near the wheel (at the piece of green tape) back up to the rear crossbar on that same side (at the piece of yellow tape)? If my crossbars are only about 6" wide, would you say make up some wider ones (12"?) and attach the new struts to the ends of these?

Struts already connect the front crossbar to the wheels, as you can also see here. Does that change your idea, or do you still say the wheel-to-rear is the way to go?

As you can also see, I've already connected the two wheel axles with non-stretching line to limit spreading.

So far, so good, and it does fit into the rear compartment!

Pete,
in Snohomish