[TheForge] die for a small hinge barrel

[Steven Smith]

I'm pretty sure Streeter has it. If you are interested, I can dig that 
out and send you the pages. I tried it once with a flypress and had zero 
luck. When I complained that I thought it was someone dreaming to George 
Dixon, he said that it worked great.

Steve

Dave Mudge wrote:
> Somewhere in the past I saw a die used with an arbor press.
> This was for making the barrel part of a small hinge.
> As I remember it, the die was a piece of solid stock that had a
> vertical slit for the flat hinge material to slide into.
> At the bottom (and off-set) of the vertical slit was a drilled hole
> whose diameter would be the diameter of the hinge barrel.
> The flat stock was slid into the vertical slot and when pressed with
> the arbor press,
> the flat metal would go down the slit and curl in the round hole at
> the bottom thus forming the hinge barrel.
>
> Question: Is anyone familiar with this hinge die set-up? Was it in a
> book or perhaps a video?
> Can anyone tell me where to find a sketch or other info about this 
> process?
> Any help would be appreciated.
> thanks,
> dave mudge
> dave at magichammer.net
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