Work continues

This morning after taking care various chores I continued on the Cage Rocket project.  I needed to mount a third Carbon Bottle Cage on the back of the seat about 8" from the top down.  I drilled the holes, but ran into a problem with one of the Nylock nuts.  The nut went on cross threaded and I had  to cut it off using the Dremal tool.  After that things went a lot easier. Below is a photo of the mount installed. Please forgive me for the quality of the photo it was dark and hard to focus. The bottle cage is mounted on 1/4" Aluminum spacers to allow for the Cage Rocket to have room to clear the seat support ribs.

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