David Hendley on fri 21 jan 00
Any of the ideas you mention should work fine for
mounting an extruder.
Any forces from a hand extruder will be insignificant
against a house foundation.
I certainly don't think bolt holes in cement blocks
are a concern, if that's where you want the extruder
mounted. You could always mix up a little cement and
fill in around the bolts, so there are no holes left.
The steel pier pipe would also be an excellent place to
mount the extruder. No need to build a square wooden
column around it. A couple of short horizontal 2 by 4's
attached to the pipe with heavy duty U-bolts would
make a good solid mounting spot.
If you run 2 by 4's from the ceiling joists to the floor,
what you are actually doing is building a wall! Use a top
plate, a bottom plate, and 2 or 3 studs and you will have
a good solid mounting wall.
--
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
hendley@tyler.net
http://www.farmpots.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: Carolyn Nygren Curran
To:
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 4:36 PM
Subject: mounting for extruder - bright ideas wanted
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| Hi all, Am using grant money just received to broaden scope of my
| work...toys in the form of Bailey System 1 extruder with 4" and 9"
barrels,
| a Bailey slab roller too. Thank you, all those on the archives who gave
me
| input. (The fact that Bailey is just 2 hours from here and we can avoid
| freight charge by picking up the order ourselves was also a factor, plus
| fact that young artist son lives in nearby Kerhonksen and we can see him
| for lunch with CNC Pottery treating!)
| At any rate, a query about mounting the extruder: Being the self
taught
| type who learns by doing (and a gregarious misanthrope who prefers working
| in solitude to boot), Clayart is my best source of info. Extruder will
go
| in basement studio, and one solution given by Bailey was toggle bolts
| through the cement block foundation. I hope to avoid that, since we are
| in termite and carpenter ant land, and I don't want to give any little
| buggers any easy access to house interior. There is a big I beam running
| the width of the house, and a steel post supporting it in middle. Now I
| don't want to "bring down the house" with my creative energies, but might
| it be feasible to build a wooden square column around the post and attach
| the extruder there? I have used a small North Star extruder at a friend's
| studio, but this one is going to be heavier duty, and I have no experience
| with the "feel" of a bigger extruder and how much strain it will put on
its
| fastenings. Has anyone bolted 2 by 4's to joists on the ceiling and then
| bolted to cement floor to create a freestanding support for an extruder?
| Any thoughts on that? Any input from you innovative and creative
| clayarters will be much appreciated.
| Thanks in advance. CNC where the studio is mighty cold these
days...brrr.
Jim Brooks on sat 22 jan 00
Do you remember the big standing fans..? I went to a junk yard.. and
bought the heavy steel stand (no fan) for $8.00.. which is adjustable for
height. I then adjusted the top tubing to my height.. placed u-bolts thru a
2X4 and tightened then down on the top tubing. ..then i attached my extruder
to the 2X4 .... now i can roll it around (because the base is large and
round..and all i have to do is tilt the stand to roll it ). Also.. if i need
more space..i can raise or lower the extruder.. It has worked great for
me... and it is portable-- but heavy..
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