It's details like this that always make me feel like I'm just putting my shortcomings on display. Yeah, there are a TON of gear manufactures but each gear has a ton of spec's that I was not familiar with. But I also know from past experience the limititaions of the local supply pool. Where i used to work I could take home buckets full of up to 3" shaft cut offs all day to make rollers with. Not so here. No heavy manufacturing, few metal suppliers and welding shops/machine shops. One wrecking yard that seems more like a drug front as it's always closed and you can only get in by appointment and only for a specific part. No browsing like when I used to work in a wrecking yard. Also found that the most common large shaft size around was 2 1/8". This is approx what most of the beader manufacturers rollers are so if push comes to shove I think I can buy blanks and machine to need.

By far the best prices was on eBay. So to narrow down tidal wave I decided I needed gears that would take a 1" shaft. This only brought up 1,000 hits. So through the process of elimination and putting the specific gear/spec into the program Gerotic 2, I found that the gears that would give me a 2" center and was the most common and cheapest was a S1224. 12 diametral pitch, 24 tooth. Found them for $18ea. W/free shipping. Compared with in a regular distributor at over $60ea. and who knows how much for shipping. Not bad. First pieces in the puzzle.