[TheForge] texturing long stock

[Ray Miller]

Well, an "old timer" across the river, Bob Heath, now retired, had built 
quite the wild contraption for texturing flat stock.
He essentially took to very large rollers and would run the flat stock 
through the rollers, the trick was the rollers were textured
And they had a serious drive system. He admited to me that it was a 
serious undertaking to get it to work at first, but once figured out he 
insisted it was simple.

Bob was the master of specialty equipment. He had a hydraulic punching 
rig set up to punch six feet of channel stock at a time, he had a home 
built 100 ton arbor press, yes, 100 ton, with a huge bed, something like 
3 ft by 6 ft. He laso turned the old mast from a fork truck into 
something like an elevator to put heavy stuff on his mezzanine. 
Unforturnately he is retired, but still haunts local metal working 
"hotspots", per Bob Rackers.

Ray Miller
Cincinnati

Gladish Family wrote:

>What a project!
>Why is it that the simpler the form I want to make, the more work it is to
>get it right?
>I just finished texturing some 12' sections of 1 x 5/8, hot through drawing
>dies. The whole time I was wrestling with these long bars and watching them
>sag and twist and go all noodly I thought, "if I were working with a more
>experienced smith, he'd laugh and suggest a much easier way of dealing with
>this."
>Any observations or suggestions, for the next time?
>TIA,
>Andy Gladish
>Guemes Island, WA
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