English Wheel My way

I started an English Wheel project a few weeks ago to show my room mate how to do some dishing on a stump and as at the time I did not have an English wheel I made one from some stuff I bought at a surplus store and the local steel yard from there rem's pile. the frame is 3 x 3 x.250 and the legs are out of my scrap pile 2 1/2 pipe the slider parts are trailor hitch stuff I had laying around the wheel mount on a short piece of 2x2 .250 the top one has a plate on it so I could weld a nut on it to hold it in place from the top. The screw is a piece of 1 1/2 - 8 all thread I just happen to have laying around for about fifteen years (about 12 ft of it) and a $6.00 nut. Frame stuff cost about $18.00 the bearings (3) were about $20.00 and the legs cost almost $20.00 (the 90's on the front legs)

My next one is going to be out of 4 x 6 x .375 and will have about 32 inches to the back of the throat. The frame alone weights 187 by it self.

But that one I don't have the pic's downloaded yet.

At-A-Boy

At-a Boy
nice job Thats what this site is all about doing it you way and being happy.[cl

have fun
Tom

That is a very cool looking E wheel, I would think though that the front legs would be a PIA at times. Nice job.[cl

Did I miss it .....where did you get the wheels and how much

ronnysplymouth said:

Did I miss it .....where did you get the wheels and how much

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I got mine here.

http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?category=&q=english+wheel

sneakysnake said:

I got mine here.

http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?category=&q=english+wheel

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Geez for that price may as well just buy the the whole harbor junk english wheel and beef it up a bit

Mine

Here is an english wheel I built and it can also be used as a bead roller.
Check out the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkRIf7k402c
try using a urathene upper wheel for a different effect of the metal.

If & when I ever get back to Florida I gotta come see all the cool tools you make. I wanted to come down for the Flywheelers show but just couldn't pull it off.

I be here
just finishing up another BR with adjustable shaft and quick release on the top shaft. Just love building tools.
I be out in left field north Fla. near mobile. AL.
have fun
Tom

I used some ball bearings from a surplus yard as they sell ball bearing most of the time for about a dollar an inch I bought all the bearings I needed for the project for about $20.00 the spherical one is from a self aligning bearing and if you look at it from the front and carried the radius all the way around it would be a complete sphere.

The legs out front do not impede anything have done on this E-wheel as I never planed to do anything larger than a motorcycle fender on it. For larger projects I have in the works already a second one with a 32 inch throat made out of 4 x 6 x 3/8ths box tubing. the legs come in handy as a place to put my leg to brace the machine as I wheel with it, I push down on the kick wheel as I push and brace against the frame as I pull. By doing that the machine sits still and I have no problems using it.