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Old 04-30-2018, 01:05 AM
Peter Tommasini Peter Tommasini is offline
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I just sold one recently for 2200. Perhaps I sold it too cheap, but I doubt this machine is worth 5k.. For that money you could get a Tommasini wheel with Hoosier anvils, and have a much better machine. Thanks for posting the link Bill, nice to keep up on what things are bringing...
AND...... It has a small top wheel and lower anvils ....going by what my engineer told me when we where discussing how to build mine, the arch at the top is too tall for the width of the machine over all which means it would flex
Peter
PS As I keep when saying.... when design a wheel frame one need to look at a few things but mainly .... composition of material, design and where most of the load is going to be,+ have the strengthening ribs in the right place
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