Repairs
Before I fired up my first torch and started making racks, I fabricated a Carradice Bagman clone, which had several horrible deficiencies (not being square was one, but more importantly the base was so triangular that bags wanted to fall over to one side or another) and, after a few brevets and tweaks, ended up being set aside and lost in my bike mess.
Today I was tidying up and I unearthed it, but rather than putting it back down for later I took it to my workbench and reshaped it to be not quite so teetery and unsquare as it used to be, then brazed a crossbar on the back (to discourage twisting, plus to provide a bar to tie saddlebars to), cleaned it up, and painted it with a couple of coats of purple primer. It will need to have the primer sanded (obviously; the visible dripping is not what I have planned for the final product) and then I’ll need to paint + clearcoat it, but hopefully this will make it actually useful for a change.