Subject: Re: information needed

From: "Bruce M. Freeman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:52:54 -0500

At 05:07 PM 3/31/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Can anyone on the list advise me on getting the address of a business
>that has hand operated crank type blowers.  If this is the wrong wording
>for this piece of equipment please forgive me because I'm new to this
>art.  I currently use the exhaust blower of a vaccum cleaner.  Thanks
>in advance.
>
>
>Pat Retton
>[email-masked] 
>

Maybe this is fantasy time, but this taps into an idea of mine.  Seeing
those lovely old Champion and Buffalo Forge hand-crank blowers, I got the
yen to make one myself.  I was thinking a casting it from aluminum.  I
haven't worked out the design, like gears vs belts & pulleys.  If I made up
a pattern and successfully cast one, I could just as well cast more.  Any
potential buyers out there?  If so, what would you want and what kind of
money would you be happy to part with?  

No guarentees yet - but I wouldn't sell anyone anything I wouldn't want my
name on.

Bruce

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From: [email-masked] (Jerry Frost)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 16:35:25 -0900

> No guarentees yet - but I wouldn't sell anyone anything I wouldn't want my

Bruce:

I like you're idea and the "do anything" spirit. Just cast the housing 
and impeller and buy the gear boxes from a regular manufacturer. It has 
been my experience when doing original "engineering" on devices like 
this that if you go to the local bearing supply co. and start picking 
their brains they'll brainstorm with you for a while then give the you 
manufacturers catalogues. (with their business stickers of course.) I 
have dozens of nice hardbound catalogues and engineering texts on: Drive 
trains, gearing, transmissions, hydraulics, electronics, pneumatics, 
controls, gaging, machine tools, etc, aquired in just this way, all 
gratis. Anyway, you get the idea. 

Let us know how it works,
		Frosty
-- 
If it ain't forged
It ain't real
wrought iron is
The FROSTWORKS

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From: Tom Vincent <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 18:04:24 -0600 (CST)

Yes please use off the shelf stuff, we have a Royal Western Chief that 
blew a gear during a show. As you might guess we'd be looking at over 
$200 to get that odd cut gear replaced. Tom