Folding Pedal for Folding Bike

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Back in 2016, I broke the pedal on my folding bike. Yep, it was a folding pedal, and I could not find another one online to buy a replacement. So design one. Well, the metal shaft was still OK, so it was only the plastic stuff that had disintegrated and I lost the spring in it. Easy enough: just copy the other pedal, well, sort of. This is for #LIFEHACK3D . Even though most people won't have the need for a folding pedal, this hack saved a whole bicycle (unless I bought some non-folding pedals). The pedal needs a spring (about 9-10mm OD by about 50mm long), to keep it locked in position when pedalling. I did create a plastic spring, but it really did not have the strength to be 100% reliable and was really hard to print using a filament machine. The original design has 2 of 30mm long by 3mm diameter bolts, to lock in the bearing block into the frame. Slide the bearing block into the frame before putting in the bolts.