Quote from: scottpA_GS on July 28, 2005, 03:41:05 PM
Hey!

I have been wanting to get something to just hold my wallet and cellphone and this thing is just right !

What do you all think?

could you hold your mobile phone and wallet in your pockets?

very creative 

nice.  i might hit the $ store tonight.

Quote from: RedShift on July 29, 2005, 04:12:16 AM
What does the underside look like?  It's not going to scratch the paint in putting it on / taking it off, is it?

My Nelson-Rigg tank bag cost 42 times your bag, but it has a rubberized bottom -- won't leave a mark.  Hope yours is equal to the task.  :dunno:

Ah, my Oxford Sports tank bag with rubber bottom does leave the marks on the paint, have to put an old T-shirt below it. But that is most likely cause I painted the bike myselft and although there are 3 coats of clear coat on it, it is not super smooth.

Good work with the tank bag, I love those, much better than having a bag on your shoulders.

Cheers,

Doug.

Quote from: deathlucky on September 12, 2006, 12:23:28 AM

could you hold your mobile phone and wallet in your pockets?

very creative 

Yea.. and I have, but I feel much safer with my $300 cell where I can see it 

OK...

Time again to revive the $1 Tank bag thread... Calamari! You still out there?? He did an awesome how-to of my idea but its gone


I will try and dig up my original pics and post them up again 

I love HD magnets. I have a couple of them holding up crap on my wall    Don't drop the bag on the tank or you might have some nice dents on the tank- they took the paint off a fridge door after trying to pull em off 

Found 2 pics.. I know I had some better ones but...







I revived this thread for another member who said he cant afford a tank bag...


NO MORE FANNY PACK! 

Clever idea!

Any detail photos of the magnets and how they were fastened? (i guess this would be in the now-unavailable HOWTO you mentioned)

 Yea.. Cal made nice little pouches to hold the magnets.. I just stuck them on the inside of the bag with one small square of old t-shirt fabric under and one over  it and sewed through the screw holes in the mag. 

i still have mine although I moved on to a Nelson Rig bag

As side note.. My bag that I made NEVER caused any damage to my tank... The nelson bag however scratched the SH#& out of my tank 

this is pretty cool.. I may have to see about doing something like this

Quote from: scottpA_GS on July 28, 2005, 03:41:05 PM
Hey!

I was at the Dollar store today, and I saw this shoulder type bag.. ya know one strap. Anyway I thought.. Man.. that looks like it would make a sweet tank bag!? So.. I paid $1.00 for it. Took it home.. cut the strap off of it and laid it on my tank. SWEET! it fits just right. I took apart 3 old Hard Drives I had and took the "Super Strong Magnets" out of em.. Sewed em' inside the bag, and BAM!!!! $1.00 Tank bag! I love it. I have been wanting to get something to just hold my wallet and cellphone and this thing is just right !

What do you all think?

That's exactly what I call CREATIVITY

good job with the tank bag!!

Arrrrgh ! You're undermining my cheapskate credibility !

You just need a $4 skull n cross bones patch on it now

All the time I've spent surfing the forum.I never ran into this.Mods need to sticky this ,in my requested forum"Touring Tips and Tricks."

One thing to watch with tank bags and scratching, if you take it on and off a bunch of times and are not careful about covering the magnets you can pick up all sorts of ferrous crap, shavings and such, as well as the usual, paperclips, staples and not even know it.

I love ghetto/DIY mods, even simple things have great value.

Quote from: ben2go on May 22, 2008, 01:04:55 PM
All the time I've spent surfing the forum.I never ran into this.Mods need to sticky this ,in my requested forum"Touring Tips and Tricks."

No, people just need to document them in the Wiki (that's what it's for).  By sticky-ing everything you just clutter up the first page of the forum.

Im going to the dollar store tonight!

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I dont know what happend to his how-to. I didnt make it, he liked my idea and made a cool how to but I guess its gone now 

Its not rocket science  He had some good info on taking apart the hard drive though. If anyone has any questions you can PM me, ill be happy to help 

It IS in the Wiki. I put the info there about a year ago.

Oh, wait. I looked up and it is no longer there!!! Damn!  Maybe we need to moderate the Wiki after all.

I can pull apart a hard drive when I get back to work on Tuesday and take plenty of pics of the process.  Very simple and yes, the magnets are strong as hell!  The disks make really good wind chimes as well!