[TheForge] Bar Shear

[Charle B Vincent]

I bought mine years ago at Harbor Fright that was speced for 1/4" thick  
by twelve inches.   It does an ok job on two inch wide bar, but I don't 
think I would want to try a full twelve inches.   I use it mainly for 
expanded metal, as nothing else I have will cut it as quickly and 
neatly.  It is also great for cutting the 1/4" by 2" bar I use a lot of. 

one like it can be seen at :

 http://users.netonecom.net/~swordman/Photos/benchshr.jpg

There are some pictures somewhere on the web where someone removed the 
handle and replaces it with a pneumatic cylinder.  This is what I am 
going to do with mine, so that it doesn't have to remain bolted down and 
can be rolled to wherever I need it, or I will use my porta power 
cylinder set up on it.

Charles


Rafter Lazy C wrote:

>Hello again all -
>
>    Although I feel a little goofy answering my own post,  I must tell you
>all that I found 2 examples in "The Art Of Blacksmithing" by Alex Bealer.
>They are not exactly what I was thinking of, but really the closest thing I
>have seen yet.  He calls them "Shear Cutters" and they have approximately 12
>inch long blades.
>    I remember seeing one in the shop of Matthew Edel (in Iowa) when I
>visited there once, but I didn't have enough sense to draw some sketches of
>how the leverage worked, and I didn't have my camera with.  If I ever go
>there again,  I will make sure to take a camera, but I don't think that will
>be soon.  (About a 6 hour trip if I recall correctly.)  His takes about a
>180 degree movement of the handle to fully close the blade.  This could
>amount to a LOT of leverage.  The closest I can some up with seems to be
>about 70 degrees of handle movement.
>    We'll see now if someone can some up with a leverage system that will
>work with this style of cutter and if they will post it.  I really believe
>that lots of guys have seen these and I just need to find someone close
>enough to one to take pics of it and share with us.
>
>Thanks for listening to my rambling,
>Rick
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Rafter Lazy C" <rick at rafterlazyc.com>
>To: <artgawk at thegrid.net>; "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 3:42 PM
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Bar Shear
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>>    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
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>I
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>>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
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>project
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>>as well.
>>
>>Hoping,
>>Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
>>  Home of Smoky Forge and Lem the Wonder Mule
>>In the middle of Northern Illinois
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>>http://www.rafterlazyc.com  (home)
>>http://www.smokyforge.com   (forge)
>>rick at rafterlazyc.com   (email)
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