Carry on luggage for a road warrior.

Funny this just popped up on Facebook today.

Has a cool design and features, kind of afraid of the price however.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skyvalet/skyvalet-innovative-smart-luggage-with-shark-wheel/description?ref=ejvze9&utm_source=jellop&ja=z2aimakj&utm_term=jellop&utm_content=Skyvalet-CB1&fbclid=IwAR1UcnD2SV27GNc9XmhbWNplc7DI2M-PxhQ64f9nnHTyWvMAcKeXMF6dH44

Dusty Gesinger wrote:

Can you drill out the rivet into the axle and replace with rivet or screw for future repair?

Good suggestion, I tried, but it looks like the axle size is metric and the end of the axle that had the rivet head was counter-sunk. To keep the wheel from spinning the nut free, I’d have had to use lock nuts which would have stuck out from each wheel and looked really bad.

I see now that Amazon does have a rebuild kit that includes wheels and axles with a locking screw on one end, basically a direct replacement for the rivet head. Of course, now that I have that sucker JB Welded together and it isn’t coming apart anytime soon.

Hopefully, my bush fix will get Mrs. Grouse another 50,000 miles or whatever and by then the thing will look so bad she’ll want a new one regardless of how the wheels are working.

Travel Pro looks like the way to go next. I sent her a link and she approves mainly because they come in pretty colors. Mrs. Grouse doesn’t do black luggage because every black rolling bag looks to the same and people aren’t careful so some guy grabbed her bag once getting off the shuttle and she had none of her stuff for 3 days while the thing got sorted out.

Mrs. Grouse got in from New Jersey last night, just beat the start of the snow. I love her, she’s a trooper.

Grouse