[TheForge] Re: shuttle - High temp glue

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Ron Childers wrote:
> Were they 8" x 3" rollers? What did they cost?
Ron, They traded some iron work when i respectfully 
said i couldn't afford them..their proposal.
I said to send me some steel that they wanted 
incorporated so they went around to each department and 
collected 200# of junk and shipped it here.
I made a big bolt-together bird with the stuff ( had to 
do bolt together to ship it). Came out pretty 
well...put too much time into it like usual but they 
were delighted.
  I went to the site but there
> is no price list. 
They do mostly custom industrial rollers so it's not 
cheap, but they were happy to quote a price when i asked.
Even the really small rollers like 2"x 3/4" etc from knife
> maker supply places cost a fortune.
Hard to understand why they're so high in this age of 
CNC machining...guess between bonding and turning 37 
different rubbers plus one-off jobs it runs right up....PF

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> The original version of my homemade belt grinder ( 5 
> (HF) HP, 8 X 72" belt) had cobbled together rollers 
> made from things like rubber boat bumpers and concrete 
> pumper hose and was a perennial pain in the arse for years.
> Finally broke down and had a set made at
> www.mengesroller.com.
> Very nice folks who produce an excellent 
> product....those rollers by far and away outclass the 
> rest of the machine...even after their splendor shamed 
> me into getting new bearings and shafting for it.....Pete F
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