Internal cargo netting for panniers?

[SonicTheHedgehog]

'lo all.

I've got an '08 GSA with the new aluminium panniers, and I'm exploring my options for netted storage.
What I'm after is some kind of restraint for small objects (first-aid kit, rucksack, cargo net) that mounts into the top of the ally cases, internally - basically so I can store stuff in the space between the lip of the lid and its body, and it's easily accessable when I open up the panniers.

Does anything like this exist, or am I being a bit hopeful here?

 

[Wapping]

I have never seen one.

Given that any net would probably have to be pop riveted on (or at least the retaing hooks), I guess it would be easy enough to make your own?

 

[SonicTheHedgehog]

It's a possibility, and I may have to head down that route - I was hoping for something modification-free, in an ideal world.
I envisage a sprung or under-compression frame mounted in the lid of the box with attachment points for a diddy cargo net.

Ah well. May have to start scrawling things down and seeing what the hardware stores have got.

Regards,
Ian.

 

[Wizard]

Stick four pieces of ploystyrene or similar in each corner of the lid, about 2mm shy of the lip of the seal. Get a piece of 1mm ally plate two inches bigger than the lid, and cut to fit into the lid. Use the spare to make four 25mm by 10mm strips and round off the short edges. Place the lid-sized piece into the upsidedown lid. Put two short strips on each long edge of the plate, with the short edge tucked under the lip of the seal. Drill through the middle of each slip and the plate. Use one small bolt and two nuts to secure the slips firmly to the plate, but allowing them to turn. Job done.

 

[Shep]

Stick four pieces of ploystyrene or similar in each corner of the lid, about 2mm shy of the lip of the seal. Get a piece of 1mm ally plate two inches bigger than the lid, and cut to fit into the lid. Use the spare to make four 25mm by 10mm strips and round off the short edges. Place the lid-sized piece into the upsidedown lid. Put two short strips on each long edge of the plate, with the short edge tucked under the lip of the seal. Drill through the middle of each slip and the plate. Use one small bolt and two nuts to secure the slips firmly to the plate, but allowing them to turn. Job done.

I bet you never miss Blue Peter

Shep

 

[Tim Cullis]

Have a look at the lid loading system that Al Jesse uses in his panniers: http://www.jesseluggage.com

Tim

 

[Wapping]

It's a possibility, and I may have to head down that route - I was hoping for something modification-free, in an ideal world.
I envisage a sprung or under-compression frame mounted in the lid of the box with attachment points for a diddy cargo net.

Ah well. May have to start scrawling things down and seeing what the hardware stores have got.

Regards,
Ian.

Why make things so complicated?

Get some small plastic (or metal) hooks or loops, with a flat base. Stick them to the inside with epoxy glue. Then hang (or hook) net on them.

What is so hard?

 

[SonicTheHedgehog]

Why make things so complicated?

Get some small plastic (or metal) hooks or loops, with a flat base. Stick them to the inside with epoxy glue. Then hang (or hook) net on them.

What is so hard?

I... completely didn't think of that.
*facepalm*

 

[harlequin6]

Sonic,

When prepping for a ten dayer down to Gib' I just put penny washers under the lid hoop bolts and hooked a 2 quid net in . In fact the top left washer is a 10p I drilled when I realised I only had 3 washers left ,

Pic attatched ,



H6

 

[the civil one]

I've got an '08 GSA with the new aluminium panniers,

A consideration is , with your uncoated panniers what will whatever it is
your hanging in the net look like after a few miles.
Think ,, tin man from alice in wonderland !

 

[Wapping]

Sonic,

When prepping for a ten dayer down to Gib' I just put penny washers under the lid hoop bolts and hooked a 2 quid net in . In fact the top left washer is a 10p I drilled when I realised I only had 3 washers left ,H6

That's the way to do it.

Extra marks for the 10p 'penny' washer.

Would have got a gold star had you filed the edges of a 50p piece, to make a 10p and then drilled a hole.

 

[SonicTheHedgehog]

A consideration is , with your uncoated panniers what will whatever it is
your hanging in the net look like after a few miles.
Think ,, tin man from alice in wonderland !

I'm not too worried about that - it's mostly small, light, bagged, useful items that I'd like to have to hand. I can always plasticise the top of the pannier if that's the case, anyway.

 

[Wapping]

I'm not too worried about that - it's mostly small, light, bagged, useful items that I'd like to have to hand. I can always plasticise the top of the pannier if that's the case, anyway.

Stickybacked plastic, excellent....you are getting the hang of this DIY malarky

 

[ECM]

This is how I used the space in my Vario panniers
I am looking into something like this for my new GSA panniers lids as well