Good week for progress on the shopping cart got quite a bit done. So I ordered my pedals over the weekend and they arrived pretty quickly so I was able to start the week immediately by working on them. They didn't come with any instructions how to assemble them or attach them to the cart so I just looked up a video of someone putting similar pedals on their cart to get the general gist of it. The pedals had a big bolt on it which is what would go through some sort of tubing and act as the pivot point and then there was a spring which would be bolted on and would help make the pedal return to its original position after pressing the pedal and both pedals went on nicely.
After getting both the pedals on it was time to take off the temporary brake pedal and hook up the brake cable. The idea I went with was drilling out one of the holes on the pedal to be a little bit bigger so I could send the brake cable through and it worked pretty well. With the brake cable attached it was time to move on to the throttle cable.
The throttle cable didn't have quite as much of a clear cut solution though. The cable had no attachments on the end and it didn't come with any sort of bolts or pins or anything so the idea I went with was to take an m5 bolt and drill a tiny hole through it. The hole would be big enough to thread the cable through and then I can bolt it on to the pedal and the idea worked. After getting the pedals attached and cables hooked up there was nothing left to do with the pedals so I decided to do something about the flimsy front end of the cart which was drooping ever since cutting out the door. I took the cart up to metal fab to see if my idea for reinforcing that front part would work and they very kindly agreed to get that welded for me and it was pretty quick as well.
Essentially they just mig welded a bar at a slight angle from the bottom of the frame to the cart itself and it worked really well. There is no drooping whatsoever and it actually feels stronger than it did before we cut the door out. All in all this week was a good week for the cart and next week I may or may not have the steel for the roll cage it heavily depends. But first I want to get a thorough design drawn out. It won't be complex because it doesn't have to be it just has to go over the seat. The cart itself despite how it looks is actually pretty safe in the event of a crash or the cart tipping over. So once the roll bar is on the cart should be ready to leave the shop just in time for April break.
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