Generic Rotopax gas can mounting bracket

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Rotopax makes fancy gas cans for mounting to cargo racks for off-road/overland vehicles but they are very expensive and require special cargo racks. Generic cans are available for considerably less but have inferior mounting brackets. For mounting to a ~20mm rod, there is far too much of a gap for the included u-bolts to mount through the bracket, and the ends of the u-bolt will puncture the gas can if tightened up. I created spacers to be adhered to the mounting side of the gas cans to permit the ends to extend into the spacer and create a good abutting surface for the gas can to tighten up. I then created an adapter bracket to receive the u-bolts and increase the mounting diameter to avoid the tubing and other things I had added to take up the extra room (see pics). It also looks much nicer. I included the project files - modifying the rod size and other dimensions should be trivial.