[TheForge] Re: Flattening fire place screen.

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Fri Aug 8 00:51:58 EDT 2008


  dum-dum addendum...it's easy to stretch the edges if you're not 
careful and dealing with that can drive one even nutser... ( is there an 
acronym for " don't ask me how i know"?).....pf

Mike Spencer wrote:
>> Does anyone have any suggestions re flattening  fireplace screen?  
> 
> Paul's suggestion of slip rolls is probaby the easiest.  With two
> people, you can work a piece of screen back and forth over a piece of
> ca. 4" pipe or one of those tinsmith's madrels, the big, long kind
> used for lockseaming and riveting stove pipe.  Clumsy but doable.
> Doesn't work too well near the ends unless you make a clamp to hold
> the whole width uniformly.
> 
> 
> - Mike
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