A little while ago, I was asking if anyone had an extra Ace arrow straightener around they would part with.
I was just about ready to pull the trigger on a new one from 3 rivers but $38.00 plus shipping to hawaii... Oh Whoa !!!
So I went to the home despit, and looked at the rollers for sliding doors they are large and not very wide, so I walked around and came up blank.
Today, the Marine and I were scouting and checking out mud wallows and he said, Lets go see if the feeder can be fixed, so we walked over and some son of a snake in the grass had cut the feeder down.
They had to jump and cut the hanging rope. it's the electric company kind, it's breaking strength is 1800 psi. but they got it cut
it was laying on the ground, I hope it hit the guy and broke his ankle and scarped it horribly and he gets a staff infection which requires his foot to be removed....
But where was I? Oh yeah, the tie rope was a small pieces of the same HD stuff, but it had a pulley tied on and the rope went through there to pull the heavy feeder up.
BINGO !!!! The pulley Wheel !! They come in different sizes and that might just be the ticket... so after we came out of the field, I went to Ace hardware.
The nice lady showed me where the pulleys were and then escorted me to the dowel rod section and I tested two till I found just one to just fit a 3/8s dowel perfectly... I found my Pulley !!!!
$3.18 cents later I was out the door and on the way back to the cave. When I got home, I put the longbow on the rack and changed the lathe to the mill,
put a piece of aluminum stock in and cut a groove to just let the roller fit, I took the pulley apart, drilled a hole in the holder and put on a couple jam nuts to hold it all in place.
Check it out... I already have straightened a bunch of shafts on the granite slab. I'm excited. I save myself #35.00 plus shipping to Hawaii
I was just about ready to pull the trigger on a new one from 3 rivers but $38.00 plus shipping to hawaii... Oh Whoa !!!
So I went to the home despit, and looked at the rollers for sliding doors they are large and not very wide, so I walked around and came up blank.
Today, the Marine and I were scouting and checking out mud wallows and he said, Lets go see if the feeder can be fixed, so we walked over and some son of a snake in the grass had cut the feeder down.
They had to jump and cut the hanging rope. it's the electric company kind, it's breaking strength is 1800 psi. but they got it cut
it was laying on the ground, I hope it hit the guy and broke his ankle and scarped it horribly and he gets a staff infection which requires his foot to be removed....
But where was I? Oh yeah, the tie rope was a small pieces of the same HD stuff, but it had a pulley tied on and the rope went through there to pull the heavy feeder up.
BINGO !!!! The pulley Wheel !! They come in different sizes and that might just be the ticket... so after we came out of the field, I went to Ace hardware.
The nice lady showed me where the pulleys were and then escorted me to the dowel rod section and I tested two till I found just one to just fit a 3/8s dowel perfectly... I found my Pulley !!!!
$3.18 cents later I was out the door and on the way back to the cave. When I got home, I put the longbow on the rack and changed the lathe to the mill,
put a piece of aluminum stock in and cut a groove to just let the roller fit, I took the pulley apart, drilled a hole in the holder and put on a couple jam nuts to hold it all in place.
Check it out... I already have straightened a bunch of shafts on the granite slab. I'm excited. I save myself #35.00 plus shipping to Hawaii
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