[TheForge] English wheel update

Wed Jun 26 01:00:01 2002

At 05:41 PM 6/25/02, you wrote:

The Tinman is good!. He sells great ( and expensive) eye protection, 
planishing hammers
  and supplys for torch welding aluminum and a bunch of other 
stuff...pricey but good..

>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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