Thanks! Two bearings limit the play that a single set would have. If you cut a section through the shaft you would see four bearings in the section rather than two. The further these bearings are apart, the more resistance to rotation there will be. -|:|- vs -|:|-|:|-

@@Grunblau Thanks for the reply! I see - did you try just one bearing originally?

I don’t generally entertain commissions… I get a lot of requests and they rarely go anywhere after I quote the work involved. The best I can offer is putting up enough info for people to pursue their own projects. There are a lot of ways to approach the part you reference that might include investment casting. Most likely it would be best to ask a machine shop that would produce it from billet aluminum and use steel inserts for what look like vacuum ports (not in my wheelhouse). Hope this helps!

Make sure the bottom of the pond is level and adjust from there if it isn’t with sheets of pond liner. Then after placing the base, check the rim as best you can with an 8’ level. Install the bowl and check again. Could ultimately shim bowl too worst case…. Got pretty lucky in this case that the pond contractor had made the bottom of the pond extremely level!

$45 per sheet out the door from the before times…. I would not use precious BB now. Used to be 1/2 the price of a nice veneer plywood. No longer the case.

@@Grunblau it's nearly unreasonable to use now

Thanks! I have a few videos in process while they figure out how to be better. Maybe you and I should start our own platform! I know millions of people that would love to go back to KZfaq c. 2017

Yup. I could see the potential. Especially for a small shop!

I hope you found my pouring tongs video by now ;)

Thanks!

I still intend to do a run of these for Christmas presents… in that case I think I will be happy I have a smooth print. I will likely try to use Petrobond instead to reduce effort on multiples. With a smooth pattern, I could also produce a way mold for investment casting and do a tree of them at once!

@Grunblau oh OK makes sense. I did my first casting from 3D print using petrobond the other week and it turned out really well making my own nordic gold for a coin. I was surprised that it did pick up the print lines, but still looks great with minimal processing.

This storage was primarily to store thin sheets for a vacuum former. If you look closely, I think I acknowledged how much floor space it takes to get it out of the system as a lot of people miss this. Same with ripping on a table saw! So far, it has been great addition to the shop using vertical space that is usually wasted. But this only works with a floor to ceiling of greater than 8’.

@@Grunblau Yes indeed, you mentioned the footprint required to take the sheets outs on a regular setup. However, you didn't mention that you need an unobstructed 8+ feet of vertical space for your design to load it easily. In my example, I was refering to the tracks of a standard 9'x7' garage door, they are generally at around 7'4", which is lower than 8', which means it wouldn't be easy to load it... but still doable, need to angle the sheet before loading it. This isn't specific to your design though, it was just an observation for others to think about as I was looking over other people's design to see if anyone had came up with a solution to less than 8' high tracks that gets in the way heh.