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Building a Crank-organ Cart
By Wallace Venable

[ John Haskey wrote in 140728 MMDigest --

> I'm planning to build a crank organ cart and, before I unknowingly
> make a huge design mistake, I'd like some ideas and hints into what
> makes a good cart.

I've written some fairly extensive notes on the subject.  I posted them
in two short articles on Mel Wright's website on busker organs.  The
more recent one is

  Carts for Small Organs by Wallace Venable
  http://www.melright.com/busker/jsart98.htm 

It follows about five years of experience with the one described in

  Box-Cart for a Grind Organ
  http://www.melright.com/busker/jsart67.htm 

Since I wrote the "Carts for Small Organs" piece I have constructed one
along the lines of the folding cart. I don't have a photo of it posted,
but it is the blue cart in two COAA Rally photo collections:

  http://knoebels.weebly.com/uploads/6/7/8/3/6783616/2546390_orig.jpg 
  http://lakewinnie.weebly.com/uploads/6/7/8/3/6783616/5748525_orig.jpg 

The Mel Wright website also has another design:

  Organ Cart by Daniel Wright
  http://www.melright.com/busker/jsart95.htm 

Wallace Venable


(Message sent Wed 30 Jul 2014, 19:12:54 GMT, from time zone GMT.)

Key Words in Subject:  Building, Cart, Crank-organ

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