On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:55:48 -0700, RainLover
wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 10:52:40 -0700, "WJ" wrote:

Go to a wrecking yard and grab a rear spindle/hub assy off some front wheel
drive car. If you look, you'll probably be able to find one that simply
unbolts from the axle (check out the VWs; I think Jettas are like this).
It'll probably be cheaper than some new gizmo, naturally and well sealed
against the elements, and way-overkill structurally, so you'll never have to
worry about wearing it out.

Thanks! You're a genious.. :-) I would just have to make the
mounting stout enough to allow the 3' wide sculpture base spin without
wobble....

Ask Bob Gurr about that one - Disneyland used (and still uses) so
many Nash Rambler front spindles and hubs as the component
building-block for so many different pieces of their rolling equipment
(including the Omnimover system) that they bought the tooling when
Rambler stopped making them.

http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID108100.asp

You can kill a good evening reading all Bob's columns about the
“Disneyland College of Experiential Engineering” - They debugged all
their early designs just like NASA: build it, boost it and bust it.

http://www.laughingplace.com/News-Previous-C-GURR.asp

If you know what they had to go through, the intended slur "Mickey
Mouse Engineering" really turns out to be a high compliment. ;-)

-- Bruce --
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