[TheForge] English wheel

[Ben Barrett]

Maybe you can braze the two wheels together more cleanly, on your own :)
Sounds like a fun project, thanks for sharing!
Let us know if you can upload any pictures of it...

Best regards,

Ben


On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:

> If you have any problems, Wray Schelin is the man to go to.  Nobody on
> the planet knows as much about English wheels as he.  He builds them,
> uses them, and pretty much revived the use of them, I'd say more or less
> single-handedly.  There is nothing he cannot tell you about how they
> work and how to correct them if you are having problems.  He is big on
> rigidity, so your lateral flex may be a problem, though I really don't
> know.
>
> Write if you would like his address/phone.
>
> On 2/17/2012 1:49 PM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> > 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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