The parts came for my quickie english wheel big wheel is an 8" dia. x 3" wide
rigid caster that bolts to my bridgeport table and a 2 1/4" x 1 1/4" wide
track roller that's adapted to mount in a collet. I just tried it out on a
small piece of .062" 3003 . It seems to work nicely . With about the pull on
the handle that it might take to drill a 1 1/2" hole in steel it put a nice
compound curve in my sample . A couple of bungee cords did the pulling so I
had two hands on the panel . I had to put more radius on the track roller
which I did with my 4" grinder while it was spinning in the lathe . I'll be
able to make some small pieces like the bubbles in the body for the front hubs
.
John Burk joyseydevil@comcast.net
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