[TheForge] Bar Shear

[Mike Linn]

Unless Im sadly mistaken "bar" shears are not designed to cut more than 1" 
to 1.5" lengths (or so).

My big # 7 Edwards will take an 8 inch cut in sheet metal but it would be a 
real bugger to do. Its designed to cut bar stock.. not sheet metal.
It makes quick quiet work of 1/2 bar and 5/8 x 1.5" but you cant position 
sheet metal and hold it in place to make a cut.

What your looking for to do this would be a Marshalltown rotary , a 
Beaverly or a box type shear made for sheet metal.
Ive got a friend that has a big motor driven Marshalltown that will cut 
1/4" plate like butter. But with plasma... why bother...


mike



At 02:42 PM 8/22/2004, you wrote:
>     Well, I thought I found what I wanted in "The Cookbook".  Really it is
>not, as I want to be able to make a cut 10 inches or so long.  I haven't
>seen any for sale around here at all.  Haven't seen any for sale anywhere I
>have been.  Maybe if I ask again, someone will get a picture of theirs and
>put it on the photo access page.
>     Otherwise, I'll be back to the beginning design stages with this project
>as well.
>
>Hoping,
>Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
>   Home of Smoky Forge and Lem the Wonder Mule
>In the middle of Northern Illinois


            Mike Linn
      Artist Blacksmith
          McCalla, AL
        AFC Webmaster
http://afc.abana-chapter.com

" Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat 
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