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The English Wheel is complete minus a few touch ups here and there. Wray explains all of the features and the demonstrates the functionality of it by wheeling a piece of sheet metal. The plans for the frame can be purchased on our website and we will also have the adjuster / wheel plans available there soon. Thank you for all your continued support!
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hi it's ray from proshape a workshop and
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tonight I wanted to talk about the
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YouTube build English wheel as you can
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see we're almost done with is a few
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little tweaks we want to paint these
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here the bottom and the top of the
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juster and the bottom holder here and we
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feel a few tweaks here and there still
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but I'll just show you some of the
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features that we have on the wheel
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we have rubber underneath it gets glued
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on and it's got a really nice tripod
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system the thing is super stable someone
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mentioned I had it on Facebook and
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someone mentioned I should probably put
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a boggling across there doesn't need it
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those legs are bulletproof we have the
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adjuster of the anvils right here with a
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nice rack and we have a new adjuster I
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designed in a new bottom holder these
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bolt on and some of the people have been
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making comments on Facebook I put a
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couple pitches up this week on Facebook
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on my facebook page or anybody on
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YouTube wants to follow me on Facebook
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it's under a chalene or row shape or
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sheet metal either one and my racial een
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when I post a lot of really good stuff
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there if you're interested so you have
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to become a friend I have already you
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have to follow me I've already got 5,000
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friends and that's the limit I guess on
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Facebook so we painted it up with
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rust-oleum hammered finish all of the
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the wells Frank my volunteer put the
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frame all together he did all the
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welding and most of it was MIG weld and
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Miggs spatter all over the place but it
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was quite a bit of cleanup from the
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wells and then I wanted it to be really
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pretty so I had Frank
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put bondo in all of these and we clean
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the fill it's all up nice they're all
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been sanded beautifully and everything
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so it's gotten really nice appearance
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now even on the legs we filled it all
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with bondo down on the bottom when we
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put the soles on there and these are
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going to be painted with wrinkle paint I
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just didn't get a chance to yet to get
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that done and this is the mechanism that
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I designed for this wheel the top wheel
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and anvil it's a pretty much standard of
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what I do on my other other english
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wheels that we sell and what I'm gonna
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do now is I've got this as a plan that
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you can buy it's a full-scale plan that
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includes the plan for the frame and the
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legs and that's been pretty successful
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and it's another way of help in my
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youtube channel and these difficult
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times if you're interested in building a
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really nice machine like this so my the
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plans are on sale at my website pro
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shaper calm and now what we're going to
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do is this is the prototype machine and
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we might like I said tweak it here and
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there but not nothing major everything
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is really really good it exceeded my
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expectations but we might do some
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enhancements as we evolve it and Frank
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is going to start doing wheel number one
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the production wheel number one we're
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going to make a couple for the shop but
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wheel number one we're gonna video every
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bit of it showing how to do all the
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joints and doing how the different ways
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of doing the joints the cutting the the
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metal for the joints and also the
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welding methods and then what a lot of
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people are interested in is how do you
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make all this well I'm going to have
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plans available they also will be
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full-scale they will be on on my pro
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shaper with pro shepard.com website and
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all the innards and all that will all be
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there
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and that means that you can make this
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all yourself or if you don't have a
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lathe and the equipment maybe you have a
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friend on the street or machine shop
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that you've dealt with they can do it
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for you or you can also buy all this
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stuff from pro shaper calm another
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option is if you have a local company
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that's making the anvils or something
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you can buy all that stuff from them and
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it will all adapt what I have the reason
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why it will adapt is I designed this
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with an interface so it has these four
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bolt three eighths bolts interfaces
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right here so it's it's pretty flexible
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as far as how you want to put on
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different types of tooling and some of
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the people on the forearms have said hey
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would that be kind of cool if you made
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it like a multi-purpose machine and I
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said yeah I'm generally not a big fan of
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multi-purpose machines but some people
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are very tight on their space in their
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two-car garages or one car garage or in
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their basement or whatever and it's very
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easy for me to come up with a dovetail
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that's tapered and that would allow you
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to kind of plug this stuff in so you
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could plug this and tighten a couple set
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screws and it would hold it and that one
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would drop in a couple set screws and
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that would be the English wheel mode but
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it also could potentially be turned into
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a planning hammer or a luring press or
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all kinds of different or bead roll or
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tipping wheel all kinds of different
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things so that's yet to come
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that's on the agenda somebody else said
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that they'd like to have it so that it
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could swing against the wall and be
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hinged right against the wall so this
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has a nice flat plane here and flat
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plane here that easily could be adapted
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for a wriggly really heavy-duty hinge
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system so that you could swing swing it
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right out into the room or against the
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wall so some of the other features that
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the machine has is these and
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these yolks here these are adjustable so
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that you got set screws here and here
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that allows you to tip the angle to
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correct any geometry problems or
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anything like that or if you want to
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pinch one like this sometimes you want
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to pinch the wheel and you can do that
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by just loosening the screws and turning
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these adjustments here you also have a
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one point connect connection point here
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for the yokes so that if you turn that
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loosen that you can turn this and that
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allows you to turn it 90 degrees or 45
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degrees which comes in really handy not
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all the time but maybe 5% at a time it's
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a really nice feature to have that's the
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same deal over here you got one
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half-inch 20 thread with a 3/4 a head on
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it
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bolt that you just loosen up and you can
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turn that yoke any way you want and this
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system here is it has an inch and a half
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piece of cold-rolled Brown stock through
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here and this has got a sleeve on it
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right now that's carrying the load but
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you can alter the size of that sleeve if
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you wanted to and that would allow you
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to raise and lower that if you wanted to
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put a little bit bigger wheels or
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different yokes and all that so there's
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all kinds of adaptability to this to
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this machine if you wanted to have a
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bunch of different specialty anvils you
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can make another holder on the other
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side you got plenty of room for growth
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foot handles and we got a nice lifting
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point it's really well balanced it comes
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up really nice and square there and and
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then I have this is what I do here on my
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top wheel adjuster I always put one
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different colored ball so you can find
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out where you're at
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as far as how much tension you have on
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it now this will be what I call the
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deluxe mechanism kit and again it'll be
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sold as plans might also sell it as
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components that you finish and also as
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finished piece
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that's yet to come it might be another
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two weeks before I get all of that stuff
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done and some people really
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budget-conscious
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and they might want even at less
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expensive set of mechanisms so I will do
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also a bottom adjuster set up is
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oftentimes a little less expensive to
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make so this can be easily adapted to a
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bottom adjuster some people just favor
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in many ways you can kick in with your
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feet I don't particularly care for them
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but a lot of people do so I will make a
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mechanism that will be a bottom adjuster
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and that'll be another option and that
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will be a lesser priced one but that's
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going to be at least a couple weeks or
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so before I get all that done and we
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painted it the black rust-oleum Hammad
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finish then this is a silver when we put
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these little stripes on and it's looks
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really attractive like I said this is
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going to be the wrinkle finish I think
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that will set it off really nice and we
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got this with the plan kit you get with
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the deluxe plans you get the full-scale
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plans which allow you to make little
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templates and to be able to cut all the
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pieces very easy and you leave the
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full-scale plan untouched and you can
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measure everything so when you get ready
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to well that if you want to know what
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that distance is from here to here
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whether you're in metric or if in inches
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you'll be able to measure the plan and
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make sure that yours is measuring up the
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same and as you weld it the plans also
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include the angle cuts for the wheels
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and area for the legs and there and then
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also the pro shaper aluminum nameplate
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here which I put on with the two-sided
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industrial Automotive tape so that's a
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funny story because when I put it on I I
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said oh I'm gonna try it here in the
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center of the machine and I just barely
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touched it
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this and I step back my says you know it
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might be better if I put it over here
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and I went to take it off and there was
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no way it was impossible it was on this
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so the other side I put it in the center
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right in here that's going to have to
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stay there so we've got an asymmetric
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look on this wheel so I'm really happy
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with the machine let me show you where
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we can do with it there's some steel you
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know put the steel into it any adjuster
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on and we'll be using this on some of
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our projects too as you can see that's
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really stable the machine's not jumping
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around or anything with the rubber feet
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on it or rubber shoes on it and that
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three-point pickup or leg system it's
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really stable so there's the the nice
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compound you can pop in there in minutes
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let's try hitting up a little bit let me
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get my gloves on so if anybody has any
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questions about the wheel two on the
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forums if you probably noticed I answer
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all the questions on the forum on
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YouTube where you can make comments or
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ask questions
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so you can knock those lumps out pretty
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quick don't hesitate to ask any
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questions and thank you very much for
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the support you have been given me it's
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been really helpful in this this time
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we're in now and I hope we can make this
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into something that works really well
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not only the English wheels but like
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I've mentioned I think in the earlier
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video I plan to make you know a bunch of
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different machines there will be of this
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high quality build construction and
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design and it's pretty inexpensive
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everybody's always looking for an
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inexpensive tool but they want it to
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function well as you can see that
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functions really nicely I priced out the
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tubing brand new from my supplier and
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brand new with the legs and everything
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is probably about 250 to 275 250 to 275
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dollars I don't have the price yet for
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projected for this and like I said
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that'll be in a basic and a deluxe
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version and also it'll be bought
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potentially in plans where you do it
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yourself or the kit or assembled so
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there'll be an array of different price
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points so make it affordable for
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everybody's pocketbook so from charlton
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massachusetts and racial liens
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browshaper workshop i want to thank you
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for watching good night
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