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JW:
I also have some experience with a rotary table indexer that would make the bolt patterns for the hub super easy. There is a index plate that makes the bolt pattern. I know this because I had a plate that was for like 6 lug and we needed 5 lug plate installed. once we had that it was easy to make that bolt pattern. I also recommend taking a peak in the "Machinery Handbook"
Frank S:
Went and picked up enough purlin to do a 1/4 of the roof and half of the north wall today
SparWeb:
Imagine the 6-part harmony you could set up with 6 different size drills chattering through one long bar of aluminum with that gang-drill press!
Of course, nobody in their right mind wants to hear even one drill bit chattering, let alone 6. Like a thousand fingernails dragged across a hundred chalk boards :o
Frank S:
--- Quote from: SparWeb on November 13, 2019, 01:45:28 AM ---Imagine the 6-part harmony you could set up with 6 different size drills chattering through one long bar of aluminum with that gang-drill press!
Of course, nobody in their right mind wants to hear even one drill bit chattering, let alone 6. Like a thousand fingernails dragged across a hundred chalk boards :o
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back in early 71 I briefly worked for Pettibone Texas where I ran one of these drills but with only 3 heads however all 3 heads had a 8 bit gang drill attachment mounted on them. 1 head drilled 3/8" as pilot holes the 2nd head drilled 3/4" the 3rd head had champer bits I would load a flange in the fixture under the first head once that was drilled remove it place it under the #2 head load another under #1 then once both of those were drilled move #1 to #2 add a blank in #1 then under #3 champer both sides very repetitive over and over and over I had the timing to the point that I could drop a finished flange in the tub 3 times a minute I worked there nearly 6 months before the head office found out that I was only 16 and had to reluctantly lay me off but that was not before I had ran half a dozen different machines bigger and more complex than that one was in the place. I walked right across the street and went to work welding the tongues on mobile home frames the same day I was laid off making .50c more per hour I stayed there until I turned 17 and talked my dad into singing to allow me to join the Army
DanG:
Ah yes, long ago and far far away - 35-hours a week at $1.35/hour... then came the day I turned 16 and presented my full work permit... oops, hey, you're umnn fired... 15? You know how much trouble blah blah blah.
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