Quote Originally Posted by locostracer View Post
The Harbor Freight Bead Roller is plate steel and easy to weld reinforcing plate steel to. If you go to youtube, there are a number of good videos on modifying it for better stiffness, motorized drives, stands, better shaft adjustment for tightening, and several other areas. I just bought a complete gearmotor kit from ebay that has variable speed, and is reverseable comes with the wiring schematic, foot pedal, and reverse switch.
My mistake, it was FB, here is the advertisement. The gentleman has been making lots of 4-6 of these at a time and filling orders as he gets enough to buy parts at a discount.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/5549...32637113545832


Best to you, Barry