Comments on: From The Flickr Pool: A Cheap(-Ass) Saw Feed Roller

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:41:27 +0000

Ooo. This would fit well in my garage shop. Small, portable, and looks like it’ll easily move out of the way when I’m done.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:14:11 +0000

The previous shop I worked was the ultimate in Jerry rigged stuff - we built special effects for a TV show which were often quite dangerous in actual use since duct tape was our primary method of building contraptions.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:06:24 +0000

Good point Simon. I was engaging in that oh so easy habit of armchair criticism.

Please don’t come ’round my workshop unless your interested in a museum of jerry rigs

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:39:15 +0000

re: Alistair Says:

Being cheap plastic, they are pretty slippery in any direction and that is what I found for free. It does not improve the quality of the cut but it’s main function is to hold up a heavy bit of ply while you fumble for the power switch.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:38:27 +0000

just a thought…wouldn’t swivelling wheels be a little better? the fixed ones may have to be aligned accurately to the outfeed direction so that the work piece doesn’t creep to one side or another.

or am I just talking smack? the set up shown probably works pretty well.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:19:14 +0000

The plastic moulding companies that maked them will sell them to you for about $5 each - if you get a 100 or more - they will put your logo on them.

Stealing is wrong so I usually “borrow” them from someone else who stole them in the first place. The store bought ones are usually much weaker.

Simon

By: Chuck Cage

Chuck Cage — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:55:38 +0000

Don: Check out any college around the end of the semester and you can get all those ones the students bought from Container Store for free.

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:29:38 +0000

1) You can buy them at http://www.containerstore.com
2) You can ask at the grocery store and they will probably give you a couple for free. Same with the dairy.
3) You can offer the grocery store a few bucks each if they won’t just give some to you. Same with the dairy.
4) You can just take them from behind the dairy knowing that there are millions of the things, and that they are not precious and guarded commodities.
5) You can make a reasonable copy (custom fit!) out of plywood.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:40:16 +0000

Where would one go about getting old milk crates? And stealing them from behind an ice cream stand isn’t the answer I’m looking for.

By: Pete Hartman

Pete Hartman — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:40:10 +0000

I have a couple rolling pins that are in the tool drawer. Used them to press out vinyl tile, long ago, so don’t want to use them for food.

I keep considering making a stand to use them together as a wood roller…..