By the Ironworker for the Ironworker

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Bill:

Check out McMaster-Carr www.mcmaster.com for handwheels, and the ones Paul used look like they came off my Crapsman table saw.

Holy smoke Matt that a nice web site. I went in a looked at the handles and the ones similar to mine came in at $58.62 each :shocked: The ones I used are cast aluminum and came in at $11.00 each.

I'm not Rockefeller. I'm the other feller :laughing: Nice site though. If I ever come into some money I'm going to buy something there :laughing:


McMaster-Carr

 

[dcyrilc]

Nice job on the handles Paul. I'm trying to figure out what they were thinking with the factory ones. They look like they would have really been a PITA if you used it a lot.

 

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Nice job on the handles Paul. I'm trying to figure out what they were thinking with the factory ones. They look like they would have really been a PITA if you used it a lot.

Thanks Cyril. I found the old ones hard on the fingers, took to long to wind them down as well so that's why I went with the wheel type ones. Twice as fast now and much more comfortable to use.

On another note. Been checking the mail every day and nothing yet

 

[mjncad]

Matt

Looking at the hours in which you post daily, I've come to the conclusion that you must work some sort of swing shift and spend your time on TBN after work to decompress/relax?

Yep, I read TBN before bedtime; hence sometimes my posts can be a bit incoherent, especially if I'm consuming single malt scotch as I'm doing as I write this.

Holy smoke Matt that a nice web site. I went in a looked at the handles and the ones similar to mine came in at $58.62 each :shocked: The ones I used are cast aluminum and came in at $11.00 each.

I'm not Rockefeller. I'm the other feller :laughing: Nice site though. If I ever come into some money I'm going to buy something there :laughing:


McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is NOT cheap; but they have things I can't get locally. It is my favorite place to get stuff, and even though I know what's in the package, I feel like a kid at Christmas opening the box. I'm not sure if they ship to Canada or not. If their web site doesn't say, give them an email as they are responsive. To me they have the best site on the web for buying stuff and it closely mimics their paper catalog without a bunch of frou-frou Flash animation and other crap. The only thing I would improve about their site would be making managing multiple shopping carts easier, and a shipping calculator.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

Holy smoke Matt that a nice web site. I went in a looked at the handles and the ones similar to mine came in at $58.62 each :shocked: The ones I used are cast aluminum and came in at $11.00 each.

I'm not Rockefeller. I'm the other feller :laughing: Nice site though. If I ever come into some money I'm going to buy something there :laughing:


McMaster-Carr

A lot of people sing the praises of McMaster 's product line. It really is across the board, but from what I have seen their prices are like other "one stop" companies. They are well over priced, many times even higher than the companies list price.

With the internet age now, a little more time spent can usually turn up the product you need, at a lower price, many times straight from the manufacturer.

I have a local industrial supply store that gets me all the product I need for building my sawmills, which consist of many unique items. You can call around to about any medium sized town and find a industrial supply store that can usually give you much better prices....But when you can't these stores do make it convenient.

 

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Well seeing it was a long weekend for me and plus the fact it was raining the full three days It gave me the time to add the "Z" axis scale to the new mill and also to complete the last of the mods to the Edwards Ironworker.
seeing the was a work table for the punch and brake section of the unit and a work table for the plate shearing portion of it as well I couldn't see why there wasn't one for the notching station of the beast. After all if you want to make a few consistent notches it would be nice to have the table and a guide or two.

Anyway in wanting to have a project for the milling machine I got myself a piece of 1/2 plate 14" X 14" and set in to build me a table. I must be slow because it took me 10 hours to build the thing but it sure worked out well. The first thing I had to do was mill 3/4" off the outer portion of the notcher adapter and then start in at the the plate. The funny thing to all of this is a few friends stopped by the shop today as I was cleaning up and asked me what I was up to and i told them I just built a part for the Ironworker and after looking around they couldn't see what it was that I built :confused2: Oh well. It must fit in with the rest of it OK. Here's a pictorial of the operation


The first picture shows how it looked when I bought the thing.

 

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Some more pics.

 

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The last of the pics1

 

[dcyrilc]

Looking good Paul...
...as always.:thumbsup:

 

[mjncad]

The funny thing to all of this is a few friends stopped by the shop today as I was cleaning up and asked me what I was up to and i told them I just built a part for the Ironworker and after looking around they couldn't see what it was that I built :confused2: Oh well. It must fit in with the rest of it OK.

If they couldn't tell what was factory made versus home made, then that is a high compliment to your abilities.