[TheForge] English wheel update

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growing archive.

Mike Graf

Chris Worsley wrote:
> 
> Dave,
>  "yanking it forwards and backwards" is not quite the method. It takes some
> finesse and technique to do the job right. There are a variety of bottom
> wheels with different radius' available for a variety of curves desired.
> If you check Google for english wheel, you should find more info.
> Here is one site:  http://www.metalcrafttools.com/engwheel.html
> 
> Chris
> Alexandria VA
> 
> Dave Bendall wrote:
> 
> >      A while back some one was asking about English wheels. The other
> > night on Motorcycle Mania, on the History (or learning?) channel on TV
> > they showed a custom motorcycle shop in California, run by Jesse James,
> > his real name. He made a cool custom motorcycle gas tank using an
> > English wheel like this- he cut a long triangle out of thick aluminum
> > sheet, hammered it cold on a bar stool sized lead shot pad, using a big
> > ball pein that might have been a bodywork hammer. Then he took the
> > concave triangle with these big giant pein-dents all over it to the
> > English wheel. Picture a power hammer frame, but instead of anvil &
> > sliding hammer, two steel wheels that meet, one above the other. The top
> > wheel has a flat face, the bottom has a round face. There is a screw
> > adjustment for the height of the bottom wheel, with spokes sticking out
> > at the bottom of the screw that he could raise and lower the bottom
> > wheel with his feet with. He just shoved the aluminum triangle between
> > the two wheels, and yanked it forwards and backwards, tightening up the
> > tension and squeezing the wheels together as he went. The round wheel
> > just smoothed out all the bumps so nice, the part looked like it was
> > stamped in a multi-ton press. Smooth and even and a perfect curve all
> > over. This one part made the top section of his custom gas tank. Very
> > cool.
> >      Thus concludes my report on what the Heck an English wheel is and
> > does.
> >      Dave Bendall in Phoenix
> 
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