Thanks for the additional info Mike. The info on the shims is especially helpful.

Besides brake line I work a lot with 5/16 and 3/8 fuel line. I usually have a roll of both sitting on the shelf and getting that reasonably straight sucks. I'm thinking that I may make a second one with bigger rollers for that. It crossed my mind last night that a cheap source for those rollers might be the cheap pulleys like I used when I built the flagpole a couple years ago. The ones I'm thinking about usually have the roller held in with a pin and cotter key so their simple to get the roller out.

I'm also thinking about making the lower block longer or adding a short piece of angle iron so it can be clamped in a vice.

One more project to add to the list before I go in for hand surgery in Jan.....they tell me it will be about 3 months before I'll have much use of my hand.



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