[TheForge] English wheel update

Tue Jun 25 23:34:03 2002

...Thank you David Bendall.
May I use your report in the LAMA e-newsletter?
Does anyone have a picture of an English Wheel?
dave m
http://lametalsmiths.org/news/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Bendall" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 6:11 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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