: Thank you all,
: I'm trying something similar to Paul's method.
: It seems kinda of obvious now.
: I cut short lengths of the carbon tubing, mixed up a tiny amount of
: thickened epoxy; on edges of the 1/8" plywood I put a dab
: at the location of each of the three 3/4" lengths of
: tubing. The tubing was taped to a drinking straw at the proper
: spacing, pressed on and taped to the edge.
: I set them in place. Should work.

: My mistake was to attempt two steps in one. The next step will be
: to wrap carbon fiber over the short pieces of tubing to firmly
: attach them to the
: peddles. If this works then I'll do the same to main footplate
: (which already has two layers of carbon)

: I need to make sturdy blocks to slide in the anodized aluminum
: channel to make a firm connection to my kayak hull.
: The legs of most of us can lift (on a press machine) 600--900
: pounds (250 --400 kg), half of that per leg. I'm amazed that
: kayak pegs hold up as well as they do.
: I'm also wondering whose idea it was to use 'pegs'. I'd like to
: meet the guy and make him stand on a piece of pipe for a couple
: of hours.

: Will

Re-inventing the wheel ;)

Still easier to use off the shelf piano hinges, lots less screwing around, unless you just love doing that.

Bill H.