Dale. Remember the old steel wheel sidewalk roller skates? The wheels on those box coaster conveyers are nothing more than those old fashioned roller skate wheels.
Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Leavens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Supporting the Work >I have used these stands many times and usually satisfactorily, don't much > care to be hauling about weights to support the stands which are supposed > to > support the work though. > > The crank mechanism used a length of "ready rod" that continuously > threaded > rod. I don't remember for certain but I think the rod passed through a > bearing through a partition near the top of the stand restricted between > washers and pairs of locking nuts while the lower end climbed up or down > through a nut in the lower outer sleeve of the stand. > > I only saw the programme once and thought it might be a useful approach > and > maybe a way to hold a few more rollers for a longer travel. > > Unless you have access to spare rollers they are outrageously expensive, > the > use of ABS pipe though struck me as a good solution and as it happens I > have > a hole saw which creates exactly the right size of cores with a hole > absolutely centered. My first application though will be a modification of > the idea, an outfeed table hinged to the rear of my table saw that I can > just swing up and hinge legs under to add about three more feet of low > friction and adequately wide outfeed which I can easily drop out of the > way > when I don't want it. Don't know when I'll get to it though. > > Apparently the washing machine repair people used to have people after > them > for the old rollers salvaged from the old ringer washing machines for this > sort of purpose. A few years ago I went looking for commercial rollers, > very > expensive. Would be nice to rip off a super market or two. I can't leave a > beer store without an envious look at their roller delivery system. > > > Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype DaleLeavens > Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mickey Fixsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:12 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Supporting the Work > > >> Dale, >> >> You need to put something heavy on the base to keep the stands in place >> (sand bags, or something). As long as the board contacts the upper half >> of the roller and the stand is secure enough to stay put, the board will >> go over the top. I set the height by placing a long board on the tool >> table that I am using and then just raise the roller up to barely touch >> the bottom of the board. Granted, boards aren't all exactly flat, but >> this method works, if the stand will stay put with enough weight on it. >> >> I have some that I made with old car wheels as the bases (free from tire >> dealers). I used 2 sizes of plumbing pipe for the vertical supports with >> one sliding inside the other and a locking knob to hold the adjustment. >> There is a pipe flange at the bottom to attach to the wheel. At the top, >> there is a piece of angle iron with a flat tab on each ent and holes >> drilled through to hold the roller. I found some 12" long used conveyor >> rollers to use on the top. You can buy both rollers with brackets or >> ball >> bearings with brackets to use on the top for rollers. You could use >> plastic plumbing pipe with regular end caps and center drill the caps for >> an axle. You might want to slip a piece of plastic (PVC) tubing over the >> plastic pipe, between the end caps, to make it level all the way across. >> >> I saw the program where Norm made his supports. What wasn't exactly >> clear >> to me was how he used the threaded rod as the height adjustment. Do you >> know how this worked? >> >> Thanks-- Mickey >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Dale Leavens >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 5:25 PM >> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Supporting the Work >> >> >> This won't help you too much but this week Canadian Tire has roller >> stands >> on sale for under ten bucks. >> >> I have a couple, I am of a couple of minds about them. These ones have a >> pipe with horizontal pipe across the bottom and a similar parallel flat >> steel bent up at the ends with a roller across. A second inverted 'T' >> hinged >> from a cuff that fits around the main pipe and can be slid up and down >> and >> tightened into place with a hand knob on a bolt.I paid nearly fifty >> bucks >> for mine a couple of years ago. >> >> The height is infinitely variable from something like 30 to 42 inches. I >> use >> mine to catch stock coming off my table saw or jointer or drum sander >> and >> could use it with the drill press too I suppose, just never have. >> >> My main complaint is that if the board nudges the roller stand it often >> prefers to fall over rather than raise the board over the top. >> >> My hero Norm Abrams has made one, a sort of box within a box with a >> threaded >> rod to be screwed up or down to set the height. He made a set of rollers >> on >> the top using plastic plumbing pipe with wooden circles in the ends and >> rod >> through. I am thinking that a very slight slope toward the approaching >> work >> might catch the end and tilt on a pivot to level and it would be secure >> against falling over. >> >> There is little worse than having to depend on something innately >> undependable. >> >> I have been known to suspend the end of a long piece from a rope >> attached >> to >> the overhead joists. >> >> Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Skype DaleLeavens >> Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "William Stephan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 3:10 PM >> Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Supporting the Work >> >> > Yesterday, I got to spend a considerable amount of time in my basement >> > cutting and drilling in preparation for building a workbench. The >> floor >> > is about five inches higher at the base of three of the walls than it >> is >> > in the center where there is a drain. This can present some >> challenges, >> > but I like it just the same. But I digress. >> > >> > My wife is a woman of many talents, some of which have to do with >> music. >> > She has a studio, and several adjustable music stands. >> > >> > Yesterday, I "borrowed" one of these to use while I was sawing and >> > running my drill press. It worked amazingly well quite frankly, and it >> > was sturdier than I had thought. It was easily adjustable, and because >> of >> > the sloping floor, I could make minor changes by just moving it an >> inch >> > or two in one direction or another. >> > >> > Any of you folks have different and maybe better ways of supporting >> work? >> > >> > Thanks for any other ideas. >> > >> > >> > >> > Bill Stephan >> > Kansas City, MO >> > (816)803-2469 >> > William Stephan >> > >> > >> > >> > To listen to the show archives go to link >> > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html >> > or >> > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ >> > >> > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. >> > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday >> > >> > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. >> > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml >> > >> > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From >> > Various List Members At The Following Address: >> > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ >> > Visit the new archives page at the following address >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy >> Man >> > list just send a blank message to: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Yahoo! 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