[TheForge] old tool

[ries]

Actually, for the last 50 years or so, we just call this whole category of sheet metal machine a "rotary machine", and Roper Whitney, which now owns Pexto, is the last big US manufacturer.
Jet, and other importers from the far east sell these too.
In the old days, when they really were only fifteen bucks, a sheet metal shop would have 8 or 10 of these, each with different dies. 
Now, since they start at closer to $500, you generally buy ONE machine, and multiple dies.

I have a deep throat, Pexto 622, shown here-
http://roperwhitney.com/beading/1-67.cfm

and you can do all kinds of things with it. Beading, flanging, burring, ogees, and so on. 

But its not really good for putting a flange on 1 1/2" tubing. As mentioned, the rolls are too big.

Ries



On Jun 29, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:


> Got a  picture of this jenny somewhere?

 http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/digitized/McMcpdf/A51411_G.pdf
 http://www.shawmachinery.com.au/JennySwagers/BurringMachine42J.html

Called a burring machine there.  Price of $15 of is a tad out of
date. Somewhere I have a big fat catalog from the 60s that, IIRC,
priced them at a few hundred.

A newer one from India, where they repeatedly call it a "burrying" machine.

 http://www.sandeepengworks.com/jenny.htm


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