[TheForge] wrought VW

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

On Dec 9, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:


PF wrote:

> No longer a VW..it's art now. Practical considerations have faded.

Yeah, yeah, well, okay. Pronounced "Ot".  It's my years as a mekanik
-- for a while there I was a VW hot shot -- peeking through.

"Ot " is good!
I like to hold my nose and say .."art, art, art, spoken as the duck quacks".

> I figure one can replace the critical parts of an english wheel with
> 2 bearings..the difficult part being a bearing replacement from a
> self aligning bearing with a crowned outer race.

Right, plus all that tedious cutting and welding of heavy, relatively
expensive structural shapes for the frame.  I forget the price at
Princess Auto but, as I recall, it was cheap enough to offset a lot of
tedious welding.  Chinese manufacture, of course, with whatever random
imperfections that might entail.

A valid argument. 
Out of basic leftover habit from when we were poorer, and as proud possessor of a modest little junkyard,
i tend to look around for ready-made components. And try to make my own . That sometimes is satisfactory, 
and sometimes so time consuming that it's a fool's pursuit.
There's a beefy old punchpress in the front yard that i use for a static frame to carry a couple of wheels.
 I need to include a bit of forgiveness in the overly rigid set-up.
Makes me lust for a powered version.


- Mike

-- 
Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
                                                          /V\ 
mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^

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