I found in my local scrap yard, some off cut pieces of 4" x 2" heavy wall RHS steel tube about the right length to act as additional strengthening to my upper and lower plate arms.
I decided, that I will split the RHS long ways and get two "U" shaped channels that will be roughly 4" x 1" and I will weld them to the side of my plate arms, plus a vertical piece over the welded plate joint at the chain drive end of the bead roller to complete the "C" shape of the unit body.
My current dilemma is choosing a work height that I need to shoot for when making my pedestal.
I don't own the best back in the world and figure slightly higher maybe best for starters.
Should this not be to my liking, I figure I can always cut the pedestal post down a little to try and achieve the best work height for my requirements...
With all the metal involved in this project and my fragile back, I decided to fabricate a plate lifting clamp.
I copied it from You Tube and it does work good.
What with the 1" thick steel base table that I've welding on and then the weight of the actual 1/2" thick bead roller body thing are getting a little too heavy for my liking and since I have the ability to fabricate stuff, I figured this would be the time to do it.
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Russ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GQ8Ujaq7MYThe more that you learn, the more your realise that you don't know...
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