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and I've been trieng to chase down the handwheel off a old commercial type gate valve. like a huge water faucet or a 29K size handwheel and adapt that to these , cause I find in doing leather with my 16 - 188's I do use just the hand wheel on the small stuff. which would be nice if it were larger
just more thinking , to much thinking .
You might be able to mount a spinner knob outboard of the rim on your machine for a little more torque. Easier than machining a valve wheel to fit anyway, though that does sound like an interesting idea.
Rodney