[TheForge] Ellipse-forging test result

[Dan Tull]

How about just waterjet 'em?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Frost" <frosty at customcpu.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Ellipse-forging test result


>I can't speak for all of us but I'm not being critical. 
> Reading your description of the process and steps 
> involved tells me I could do it a lot faster matching 
> to a drawing for a few parts. A mandrel is more for 
> truing parts and not really for forming them.
> 
> Heck, if I had to make a hundred or more elipses, I'd 
> do it just like I make multiple rings. I'd turn an 
> eliptical mandrel and use it to make eliptical coils, 
> then cut and weld the parts.
>