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| vtsteam:
Pretty! :drool: Rob I have not done a thing on the lathe since the weather warmed up. :palm: No metal at all. Been cutting wood and building bows and arrows and target shooting. Once snow flies I'll be back indoors. |
| RobWilson:
Hi Steve , looking forward to seeing you back on with your lathe build :thumbup: , its been snowing here :( Well I managed to get a wee bit of work done on the forge hood , I am using 1mm galvanized sheet steel to make the hood . My state of the art sheet metal folder , :lol: A length of 50x50 and 60x25 flat bar LOL , does the job one day I may make something better . :dremel: And thats as far as I got this afternoon , just tack welded with the old MIG . :zap: I will seam welded it when I get the last section in . Cheers Rob :beer: |
| hermetic:
Nice hood Rob, and very authentic looking too! I have a very similar metal folder to you, I have a bench about 6ft long wirh a similar vice at either end, and when I fitted the vices I put a bit of angle iron in both to make sure they were in line. Now I trap the steel I want to bend between two pieces of angle iron, and fold away! You can use a pair of mole grips to give extra clamping force if you don't need all the length. Phil |
| RobWilson:
--- Quote from: hermetic on November 22, 2015, 02:27:41 PM ---Nice hood Rob, and very authentic looking too! I have a very similar metal folder to you, I have a bench about 6ft long wirh a similar vice at either end, and when I fitted the vices I put a bit of angle iron in both to make sure they were in line. Now I trap the steel I want to bend between two pieces of angle iron, and fold away! You can use a pair of mole grips to give extra clamping force if you don't need all the length. Phil --- End quote --- Hi Phil I was just thinking about adding a folder attachment to the welding bench , so many projects lol , I am still undecided on the hood extraction . I may go for your suggestion of a venturi type hood . Cheers Rob |
| vtsteam:
Rob, seeing you working happily on the forge gets me wanting to work metal again! You're doing a great job (as always)! :clap: :bow: |
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