PVC Roller Dilemma

[MrForbes]

Some ABS and PVC caps are flat, most are rounded. We found one store in town that sells the flat type, we're using them for all our rollers.

[neoshaakti]

Originally Posted by squirrel

Some ABS and PVC caps are flat, most are rounded. We found one store in town that sells the flat type, we're using them for all our rollers.

So you are epoxying the hub to the flat piece of PVC? or just putting in some screws through the hub into the flat piece of PVC?

Also, did you PVC cement the flat piece to your roller?

Thank you

[Dad1279]

Do you have a globe of FP motor left to use? Both can be sped up by removing stages of the gearboxes.

Or you can increase the speed with sprockets & chain.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by neoshaakti

So you are epoxying the hub to the flat piece of PVC? or just putting in some screws through the hub into the flat piece of PVC?

We didn't use the window motors, we used chain to drive the rollers, so we bolted a sprocket to the ABS end cap. You could bolt the window motor coupler to the flat end cap.

Also, did you PVC cement the flat piece to your roller?

We used small wood screws to attach the end caps to the roller, so it could be taken apart later if needed.

[NOV8R]

We're using 3 and 6 inch pvc pipe rollers. The 6 inch has wooden plugs with the adapters driven by the keyang window motors. It woorks fine. On the 3 inch we use pressure test plugs and replace the 3/8 inch bolts with threaded rod as an axle. One of the Gates pulleys is then attached to the 3/8 axle and driven by a Globe motor using another pulley and belt. We're using this roller for ball pickup and it's working great.