I want to make a horizontal hanging bar mounted below my hanging garage cabinet for light duty use. The most common use case will probably be temporarily suspending my bike by its seat while I have the rear wheel off for service (and yes I am aware of the fact that hanging a bike with a "dropper post" from the seat is a big "no-no". My bike has a standard post)
- I plan to use Schedule 40 pipe for the bar
- I plan to suspend it from the bottom of the cabinet using threaded rods so it has some lateral stiffness (as opposed to suspending it using a chain)
- The cabinet has a convenient U-shaped channel on its underside near the front and I plan to drill holes into the channel and fix the threaded rods to it
Does my plan make sense so far or is there something obviously hare-brained about it? My plan is for occasional, temporary, light duty use to get things "out of the way".
I want to drill radially through the PVC pipe on both ends and "capture" the pipe on the threaded rods with washers and nuts. Although not a high-precision job, I do want to have the through holes on either side of the pipe as close as possible to parallel with each other.
I do not have a drill press (a neighbor may have one). I have a bench vise.
How do I best go about drilling the holes so they end up parallel? I couldn't think of an easy-to-build jig.
Much appreciate the help; I know there are some great tinkerers on this sub-forum.
Thanks
