[TheForge] Cast Iron Balls

[Peter Hirst]

Looks like just the item.  I may even get a bunch of the smaller ones for 
the finial.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Brown" <lp.brown at verizon.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Cast Iron Balls


> www.kingmetals.com
> item 14-3 ductile iron balls 3", 3.77 lbs, about $8 w/o shipping
> If you have a drill press drill a hole as large as you can in something 
> clamped to the press. sit the ball in it and drill your tap size. This 
> will put you on center. Make sure you get the hole deep enough to have the 
> tap cut the threads you need or get a bottoming tap.
> Let us know when you make a cannon for the extra balls you order ;-)
> L Brown
>
>
> At 05:40 PM 3/11/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>>No joke, I have a project that involves them.  I have been commissioned to 
>>make a line of colonial bridge arm lamps.  I can fabricate or source all 
>>the parts I need excpet one troublesome little rascal.  It is a cast iron 
>>ball about 3" OD, tapped for say 1/4 20F or 1/4 IP.  I have posted a 
>>picture in the album titled "Lamp Parts" at the photo access site. It 
>>serves as a ballast weight at the base of the lamp No electrical funstion, 
>>no structural finction, just dead weight to lower center of gravity and 
>>add stabilioty.   Any ideas on a source for a source?
>>
>>Keziah
>
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