Motorizing my Bead Roller..Cheap

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Clever use of a flywheel ring gear and starter pinion. I have the HF version of this, and also want to motorize it. I'm thinking maybe replace the 3/8" steel "C" structure with something made from a piece of 6x1 or 6x2 hot rolled bar. I've seen other YT videos of all sorts of structure to stiffen these. As the roller shaft bearing blocks are bolted on, they could be reused. I bet that becomes the next structural weak point.