[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 71, Issue 2

[Cindy and James]

Reply:

I once (couple of years ago) took something like the waste parts you 
mention here and made a fairly large, I don't remember exactly, maybe 
12"x18"x4 or 5" deep
bowl for a table.  The parts were arranged, welded, all grinding, etc. 
done, and formed into a bowl shape hot over a depression in a stump.
It turned out rather nice but I started just playing around.  Some lady 
came by and paid $75 to 100 for it.  I think I wire brushed it and 
applied some sort of sealer or
clear lacquer.  I don't remember if I had problems with it deforming 
when shaping into a bowl or not, I probably did and that is why I did it 
hot.

If you sit around and think "out of the box" you never know what you 
will come up with.  Interesting.
James

>
> I spent most of the day cutting small parts out of sheet metal with a 
> Beverly shear. As sometimes happens when doing something so boring, my mind 
> started to wander. The thought came to me that the scraps that were left 
> over were like a big jig saw puzzle with holes where the parts were taken 
> out. Then I started to wonder if it would be possible to actually put it 
> back together. On the different crime shows they show them reconstructing 
> all kinds of stuff from broken windows to the chaff out of a paper shredder. 
> I know that these shows are largly fantacy, not that it couldn't be done, 
> but it would take so much manpower that they wouldn't bother.
>
> So what do you guys think? Could the scraps from a Beverly shear be 
> reconstructed? Or would there be so much distortion that by the time you 
> flattened the pieces out they would no longer fit back together?
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
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