Rotary fly box

[Mike Connor]

On some I made I drilled holes in the sides of the box and mounted small bolts on one side. There are holes drilled in the ends of the rollers. One end of a roller with a slip of rubber glued on the flat end of the roller over the hole is pushed on to a screw. ( This stops the roller moving about too much),Then the other end of the roller is put in to mate up with the hole on the other side of the box. This end of the roller has a screw thread in it ( I just glued threaded rivets into that end of the roller) and the screw is screwed in from outside. That was it. What you use and how exactly you do it depends on what you use for rollers and what material your box is.

On a few boxes I used "screw rivets" mounted in the sides of the box, placed the rollers in and then put the screws in. These are the rivets;

http://www.rivetsinstock.com/rivet-nuts ... serts.html

I don't know how the rollers are mounted in the commercial box.

If I have time this week I will make one and take some photos.

TL
MC

[hankaye]

Mike C., Howdy

Having worked aircraft maint. for 20 some-odd years.
rivnuts are something I've grown to enjoy. Very handy
for numerious 'things'.

Looking forword to you SBS.

hank

[Klaas]

Thanx for posting this Mike.
I saw the original ones,but overpriced in my opinion,easy now to rebuild a few old alu flyboxes .

Klaas

[Mike Connor]

Thanx for posting this Mike.
I saw the original ones,but overpriced in my opinion,easy now to rebuild a few old alu flyboxes .

Klaas

Hi Klaas,

if you have some old aluminium boxes the use them of course, but if you are building new look for stuff like this:

http://www.amazon.com/STERILITE-Plastic ... d_sbs_op_3

http://www.amazon.com/Advantus-Polyprop ... d_sbs_op_1

http://www.amazon.com/Gem-Office-Produc ... m_sbs_hg_4

http://www.amazon.com/Romanoff-Flat-Hin ... m_sbs_hg_1

http://www.amazon.com/Romanoff-Flat-Hin ... 85&sr=8-25

There are 18 boxes in the packs shown below. Check the prices! They vary a lot.

http://www.amazon.com/New-Soap-Clear-hi ... 58&sr=8-57

http://www.amazon.com/Soap-Clear-hinged ... 85&sr=8-24

These are cheap of course, you can find similar stuff in dollar stores, but that's not the reason for using them. They are better than thin aluminium boxes. The soap boxes make really good small fly boxes.

As soon as I get the boxes I ordered I will put up a step by step.

TL
MC

[Mike Connor]

Very shallow boxes ( Less than an inch deep for instance), are no good. You need enough clearance to get the rollers, the foam, AND YOUR FLIES! in there. If you use rollers with four strips of the foam placed equidistantly around the roller, then you need a box which will take the roller, the foam strips, and at least twice the height of the largest flies you are going to put in it. The deeper the box, the larger the flies you can put in it. This should be clear enough in the step by step. It is actually better if the box is deep with a shallow lid. You turn the rollers to get the flies to the top of the box for selection etcetera, so it does not matter if the lid is only shallow.

If you do it right you get a very good box for about 10 dollars, maybe a little more.

TL
MC

[Klaas]

I have some cheap immiation wheatley boxes,looks like they a perfect for the job.

Klaas