[TheForge] English wheel

[Larry Ruebush]

Bob

A good group to go to for help with English Wheels and that type of metal 
work is-Metalshapers at yahoogroups.com
Traffic has been slow lately, but if you ask a question, there are several 
people with alot of knowledge of building and using them.
Another forum page of theirs 
is-http://allshops.org/cgi-bin/community/cforums.cgi?forumid=10904172976458
Hope this helps

Larry Ruebush
west central IL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>
To: "theforge" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 12:49 PM
Subject: [TheForge] English wheel


>I finished my English Wheel this week. I haven't tried it out yet because I
> had to lay it down
> to finish the welding and figured I'd paint the bottom side before 
> standing
> it back up.  I'll paint the top side side tomorrow and be able to use it
> when the paint dries in this cool weather.
>
> I came up with a design that was kind of a
> hybred between the HF, Grizzly, and Covell machines. I used 'I' beams
> instead of square tubing because that's what I had. It has a little flex
> side to side, but is rigid up and down.  If the flex is a problem I'll 
> have
> to add support. Time will tell.
>
> Other than about $2.00 worth of hardware I was able to make the frame all
> from material (scrap) that I had on hand. I got a set of HF lower anvil
> wheeles on clearance for $50 and a friend gave me several 1" wids 5"
> diamiter steel wheels that were some kind of industrial caster to use for
> the top wheel.
>
> For now I'm just using a single 1" wheel on top. I don't know if I can 
> weld
> two
> wheels together without leaving blemishes on the surface.  If the 1" wheel
> doesn't work,
> I'll try welding the other two together.  Or try to get a real welder to 
> do
> it for me.
>
> I make and sell a lot of bowls.  I used to make them mainly with a swage
> block, or sink them into a wheel rim.  Last summer I made tooling for my
> press that I can use to make bowls by pushing the metal into the void of a
> ring.  This is faster than hand hammering but leaves a lot of marks that
> then need to be hammered out.  I'm hoping that the English wheel will roll
> out these marks quickly and reduce the hand hammering that I have to do.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>
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