Radius Dish Machine

[auscab]

I need some Radius dishes,
so today I went out and bought a Radius Dish Machine .
It needs a bit of work .

Rob.

[vandenboom]

Huh?? something tells me there could be more coming.....stay tuned.

[seeaxe]

I've got no idea what that is, but it does look surprisingly cool.
I can imagine that sitting by the side of Rob's bbq, with him just waiting for his visitors to ask

".....wtf is that?".

[auscab]

I've got no idea what that is, but it does look surprisingly cool.
I can imagine that sitting by the side of Rob's bbq, with him just waiting for his visitors to ask

".....wtf is that?".

By my BBQ that cracked me up it is the sort of thing that I would like to stand arround and talk to my mates about while the BBQ was sizzling away Richard.

It's an old sanding wheel, Ive never used one but have walked past them in cabinet factories and joinery workshops and seen men working on them, the old big version of a disc sander.

Its pretty heavy, the wheel is 24" wide ,cant see how this one worked well with the way they had the shelf set up on those two arms sticking out each side of the wheel, it's so springy.

I'm not so much in to sanding things to shape ,but if I get it going well it will be an option.

Set up right I should be able to cut a radius dish with a router or saw swinging the right arc,I dont know how yet ? but the knoledgeable mates are throwing in ideas. Any one got any ?

And Ive always wanted a larger face plate turning set up than the one on the end of my lathe,this would be big enough to do dished wine table tops,or arched mouldings for the tops of cabinets,or even bowls.

The wheel would not turn when I got yesterday, so I was hoping that when I did see it turn that it would be true, I got it to spin today and it has a half inch wobble, the bearings are the old traditional babbit type and were cast arround the shaft in two pours, I just looked it up then and had a read about it on Wikipedia, Babbit was the guy who invented it.

It's in bit's now and is sitting in my trailer,it's in two bits, the wheel on the shaft, and the cast base, each section is a heavy two man lift.
It's being dropped of to an engineer in the morning, He will sort the wobble ,I think the bearings are ok, then I will get it back and raise it up and fitt a 3 hp 3 phase motor, it's a nice old one that came out of an old school air conditioning set up, thrown out when they did some renovations.

cheers Rob