{"id":4944,"date":"2012-04-09T14:13:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T21:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2012-05-26T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T18:38:27","slug":"crackhead-proofing-my-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/09\/crackhead-proofing-my-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackhead-Proofing My Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In hope of keeping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/new-bike\/\">my bike<\/a> seat out of some crackhead&#8217;s streetcorner sale, I have applied polycaprolactone (AKA Shapelock plastic or PCL) to the vulnerable hex-head bolts. I covered the top bolt on the seat (pictured), the seat post bolt, and the headstock bolt. It is impossible to remove by hand but can be removed in a few seconds with [redacted]! Then all you need is a bucket of hot water to reapply it.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, my neighbor Laurie had her bike seat stolen by loosening of the bike seat bolt :-(<\/p>\n<p>If there is no update to this post, you know the PCL has done it&#8217;s job!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crackhead-proofing-bike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crackhead-proofing-bike-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Crackhead proofing the bike\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crackhead-proofing-bike-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crackhead-proofing-bike-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crackhead-proofing-bike-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crackhead-proofing-bike-37x50.jpg 37w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crackhead-proofing-bike.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coreyfro got a huge quantity of &#8220;CAPA 6800&#8221; at Tri-ISO and <a href=\"https:\/\/noisebridge.net\/wiki\/Polycaprolactone\">Noisebridgers<\/a> split it up. I got 2 kg at $18\/kg. I&#8217;ve made a couple things so far, over the door coat hangers that I use often, a headphone holder (<a href=\"http:\/\/trebor.org\">Trebor&#8217;s<\/a> idea, I expounded on it) that is awesome, a little plastic shield for a wire that goes through my window sill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Great fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In hope of keeping my bike seat out of some crackhead&#8217;s streetcorner sale, I have applied polycaprolactone (AKA Shapelock plastic or PCL) to the vulnerable hex-head bolts. I covered the top bolt on the seat (pictured), the seat post bolt, and the headstock bolt. It is impossible to remove by hand but can be removed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4947,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/4947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}