tks Sim, got a little more about the quick release. Think I can
figure that out. Need to know more about the adjuster and how
it is machined. I've been thinking about an acme threaded rod
and nut in the bottom of the tube. Just let it push against a
keyed stem on the yoke. Having been around welding fabrication
and machine work all my life, I have some real concerns about
alignment of the two wheels after it's all welded together.
Leveling the lower roller is clear enough but keeping both
wheels tracking in the same line concerns me. I think it would
be a good idea to make the yoke for the upper wheel a bolt on
part so it could be aligned with the lower roller and shimmed if
need be.
Been lookin' at John Glover's wheel as a pattern for
a frame. It's simple, has a large capacity and is
rigidly braced, that's the key word here, 'rigidly
braced. That's the biggest problem with home made or
cheap (HF) English wheels, they really need to be
immovable to function properly.
Keeping the upper and lower legs
perfectly parallel would be the challenge. Don't have any idea
how you would pull 1/4" wall 4x4 tube back in alignment once it
was welded. I suppose you could run some blind weld along the
side you needed to pull in but I'd rather not do it that way.
One could always weld some sort of attachment to the
side that need tweaking, that would pull it in some
depending on the size of the bead and it would look
like it was planned that way.
Denny Graham
Just one more tool takin' up space, in Sandwich, IL
Last edited by Denny Graham; 07/10/2014 3:55 PM.
