[TheForge] texturing long stock

Tue Jul 16 23:39:02 2002

Bob Rackers would need to ask Bob Heath, the next time he runs into him. 
It was quite tje serious looking contraption.
Ray Miller
Cincinnati

Ralph Sproul wrote:

>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
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>>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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