[TheForge] texturing long stock

Mon Jul 15 07:42:00 2002

Ray,  If you ever come up with some info or specs on the power and design of
the drive system, please send them along.   I've played with rolls a littel
bit and have been collecting things to make a larger set up.

Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Miller" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] texturing long stock

> 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
> >
> > ~ The beatings will continue until morale improves.
> >
> >
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