[TheForge] English wheel update

Tue Jun 25 20:56:00 2002

Several years ago I found this guy's site and was amazed ay what he could
do.  He also has an how to video for the english wheel.

http://www.tinmantech.com/html/gallery.html

Walt
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bendall <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 7:13 PM
Subject: [TheForge] English wheel update

     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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