pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on wed 31 may 06
Hi Snail, Dan,
Ooooooooooooooooh-kay...
If you were to use conventional Caster's but
retain only the brackets...or just buy the
Brackets themselves which any large supplier would
be happy to sell you sans 'wheels'...
You could elect to purchase Cast Iron or stamped
Steel single Sheave Pullys with a compatible
overall diameter, and bore diameter 9 or use a
reducer ) to take the Axel Bolt of the Castor
Wheel...and just use those, with some shims or
spacers for their width in the bracket...
Or, get Casters in Brackets of an earnest and
robust kind with Cast Iron Wheels, and remove the
Wheels, take them to a Machine Shop or to some pal
with a Metal Lathe, and have suitable, sufficient
'gooves' cut into the center of their treads to
securely locate them for running on their inverted
"V" rails-tracks...which should not take much of a
cut really...a 1/4 inch or something ought to be
plenty, so long as you lay your tracks nicely and
have them 'flat', and have the Casters aligned
accurately on their carriage...
And that...oughtta do 'er I would think...
Be pretty easy...
Wouldn't cost much...
Phil
as egas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Snail Scott"
Dan P. wrote:
>I have great hopes to build a shuttle MFT kiln
and
am having a very hard
time finding wheels with a groove in then. Anyone
know of a good source?
I looked a Grainger but the only ones they had
were over $170 each...
At 10:57 AM 5/31/2006 -0700, Phil wrote:
>Why do you need 'wheels' with a 'groove' in them?
Car kiln wheels often run on tracks made of
steel angle stock laid out (open side down)
on the floor making a triangular track; thus
the call for wheels with a 90º groove in them.
Having the car wheels run on tracks makes it
easier to slide the kiln car straight in with
minimal abrasion to adjacent refractories.
Sorry, Dan; I don't have good source either.
-snail
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