[TheForge] Re: Tin on Woodwright's shop

[Mike Spencer]

Frosty> Burring machine is what she called it. I don't recall where I
Frosty> heard it called an edger. I've always heard them called
Frosty> "Jennies"....

Herbert J. Dyer (in How to Work Sheet Metal) refers to  "jennies and
wiring machines" and distinguishes them from "beading and swaging
machines". 

I have three of these things: a jenny for turning a burr, a similar
machine for setting in the sheet metal on a wired edge and one
(apparently?) for forming a bead to receive wire.  At one point I got
pretty good (after a lot of trial and error) with the jenny but just
the other day I was cleaning these machine up and doing little repairs
to them that I'd been putting off your a long time (There are still
pockets of chaos after moving to a new shop) and tried to burr up a
random piece of metal.  Didn't go well.  I guess you have to keep in
practice.  The last couple of things if did with sheet metal I burred
by hand -- hadn't gotten around to cleaning up the machines yet.

- Mike

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