[TheForge] Drilling holes in rods

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Hey Dave:
Those fish on wheels make me grin...like 'em a lot.
We have a little long term joke around here about outfitting trout with 
literal aqua-lungs and wheels so that they can roll around the garden 
and eat the damn sow bugs.. Way quieter than chickens.....Pete F

magichammer wrote:
> These rims are made of 1/8 x 1/2 (low dome half round) material made for 
> collars.
> I didn't realize that you were talking about making the rim (outer 
> portion of the wheel) of 3/8" round.
> I must have missed that. What is the product going to be? I forgot, i 
> remember you saying that you wanted $750
> I hope that you are in a better market than I have found. The 
> fish-on-wheels are a tremendous amount of work
> and I have only been able to sell two of them at $350. I can't make them 
> any cheaper than that.
> They represent a good 3 days worth of work......
> dave m
> 
> PlumDon at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> In a message dated 4/4/2005 11:16:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
>> dave at magichammer.net writes:
>>
>>
>> Don, I have made a few wheels for my "fish-on-wheels".  
>> http://davemudge.freeservers.com/fish-on-wheels.htm.
>>
>>
>> Dave;
>>
>> Those fish are the coolest set of wheels I have seen. They are splendid.
>>
>> The back wheels are about 6" but using 3/8 for the center is  asking 
>> for difficulty.
>>
>> Good point. The wheels may look just as good with 3/8 square or 1/4 x  
>> 1/2", etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> I  made my hubs from 3/4" pipe, swedged down just like you would do to 
>> make a  'cattail' except this cattail is only about 1" long.  Great 
>> suggestion. I'm gonna steal it right away.
>> I  would suggest getting a "cross-slide -vise" for your drill press. 
>> To me,  the hard part was getting the center of the hub directly under 
>> the drill bit. Another excellent suggestion, Dave. I just checked and  
>> Northern has  them on sale today for $42.99
>>
>> hope this helps
>> dave m
>>
>>
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