Leather luggage for CB

[the_undecider_imp]

I wanted to post an update to my installation of the saddlebag. I wasn't totally happy with how it fit. You will see in the photo below a couple inch gap below the turn signal which looked a little sloppy. Also, the back side has d-rings riveted to the bottom corners and a couple of lashing straps are provided. With my saddle back support bracket, those d-rings were about 4 inches below the bracket, so the bag still wanted to sling off to the side and bounce around. Here's how it looked before:
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First thing I did was move the front mount that uses the bungee peg from the upper slot in the leather tab to the lower slot. The leather strap I was using on the rear set of mounting slots was too thick to pass it out from the bottom slot and back in through the top slot, so I had to run it up over the top of the leather tab. That and having a buckle and wide spacing on the buckle holes kept me from getting a nice tight draw on the strap. I substituted a nylon strap instead.
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Next, I had to do something about securing the back side of the bag to the support bracket. The rear of the bag is reinforced with a thick plastic sheet, so I originally planned to drill holes and bolt some sort of homemade bracket around the supports. I stopped in to a Northern Tool store and found a nifty rivet gun designed for threaded rivets. It's just a steel threaded plug and the run has a threaded tip that you thread the plug onto and insert it into the hole and a squeeze of the gun mushrooms the plug to stay in the hole. Then, for a bracket, I had some little J bend brackets made for attaching bungee to a bicycle. They fit the support bracket perfectly, so I installed a pair and they fit beautifully:
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The result, a tightly mounted bag that hugs the turn signal as it was intended:
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