Meanderer trike wheel knuckle, take 2

This is another go at designing a simpler wheel knuckle. See earlier blog posts of the Meanderer trike project:

• Follow-up on the chop saw saga — November 23, 2025
• Chop saw lessons learned — November 22, 2025
• Meanderer trike redesign (again) — November 14, 2025
• Setting up a home metal workshop — November 04, 2025
• Simple design for a wheel-knuckle — November 01, 2025

I have constructed the wheel knuckles, and have prepared a video for YouTube.

Here are 3D pictures of the design in SolveSpace:

And some dimensions:

Here is a link to the SolveSpace design:

https://bkhome.org/news/202512/images/wheel-knuckle-15f.slvs.gz

Built, but not quite finished, as need something on the ends of the wheel axles to stop the wheels from falling off. Will think about that over the next few days.

Have uploaded the video to YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGCWQEl6mtA

Learning experience, had three videos and joined them together with ffmpeg. Problem was, the middle one was upside-down. To cut a long story short, I used ShotCut to join them then plinej's yff (see the Multimedia menu) to process it to a smaller size. With yff, just dropped in the video from ShotCut, accepted all the defaults, and end result a considerably smaller video, 358MB down to 209MB.      

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