Jagmold in Southwest Missouri
 

Have a good grip on CAD/CAM, Machining, Foundry, Patterns & Molds so now I'm learning metalforming in sheet goods. Building an english wheel frame of expired & retired Oxygen bottles. They were FREE ! Using a piece of one upside down for a tucking stump. Polished it up perfect in the lathe. Built a ball bat tucking hammer. Collecting & building post dollies & hammers.

Gaylen, welcome to AllMetalShaping, thanks for the introduction. Sounds like you are on the way to making some of the tools that will help you shape metal. Thanks for joining us, enjoy the site.

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That's thinking out of the box. Photos would be nice when you get a chance.

I did the same thing. Also made a nice post dolly out of the half of the top part. Cut it off the cylinder, cut in half, and welded a piece of 2x2 on it. I've used it several times.

What is "Baron of Spatial Inversion"? Something about turning things upside down?:eek::lol: What does your company make?

The "Baron" thing. . .
 

See www.jagmold.com We no longer have employees as the world has changed. The website is older than Al Gore. Working on an updated site in Wordpress. Today I build fixtures, program CNC all over the midwest, consult about manufacturing processes & inventions, design products and concepts, build one off prototypes, and play with other peoples cars & sheetmetal. The Baron thing is about "Moldmaker Thinking". I am pretty good at it! Peruse corebox and pattern designs for 35 years and you will be good at it too !

The Baron thing is about "Moldmaker Thinking". I am pretty good at it! Peruse corebox and pattern designs for 35 years and you will be good at it too ![/QUOTE]


You mold maker types certainly do have a different kind of brain. Looking forward to seeing the E-wheel you build. Welcome.

E-Wheel Frame . . .
 

I have read here an E-wheel frame should not exist on (transport) wheels in use. Why chase it around the shop? I have also read here the lighter the upper wheel, the less moumentum to acc-dec with each stroke. I read somewhere else the upper wheel is easier to align with the work if it is 6" wide. Its work is only done in the center - under the anvil wheel.

I have a HF wheel set. I am abandoning the upper for a 9" dia. 5" wide design nearly half completed now. Wheel rim has .750 wall. Thinking abt CNC lightening flutes in the edges of the ID for hand grip to start motion at times. Will post pics when I figure out how to post. Reading . . .

I only have room in the shop for ONE big (56" throat) C-Frame, so am contemplating a quickchange head system for the E-wheel frame that allows Planishing, Louver Punching, Bead Rolling, as well as Wheeling. Will fill bottles with cable to be stretched - tensioned and concrete for compressive stiffness (cable, wedges, and wedgepots from pre-stressed concrete farm). Will require locking adjusters both top and bottom. Quickchange will happen from that point outward. Still thrashing the QC design. Ideas?

Other stuff . . .
 

I machine parts for a local Mfgr. of Paintless Dent Removal Tools www.dentmagictools.com . Do some R & D for them. Have many drag racer, streetrod, tractor and truck pulling friends and clients. Collecting parts for a restorod. 1951 Ford F-1 telephone installer's truck. Saw service in the SWB pool out of Wichita, KS - The Wichita Lineman . . . I have plenty of reasons to maintain contact on this forum and have been a lurker for a long time. The light here is hurting my eyes, but eyes adjusting!

We are near Springfield, Missouri -known for Stainless Steel Fabrications in chemical, pharmaceutical, food processing, microbrewing, and dairy areas. Stainless knowledge runs in the streets with the unemployed ! So do suppliers of these goods and fasteners. Have programmed for many of them. There are more waterjet cutters and lasers in this town than presses. Most captive. Have done R & D work for www.usphotonics.com , a biomedical research house with large but small capabilities. Regularly build components for their femtosecond laser machining center and program it on demand.

The wider wheel is both a blessing and a curse. Yeah, it holds down on marking but it also limits access to the panel for little things. Personally, I don't see much need to go over 4".

As far as wheel weight goes, I don't notice a difference that matters. On my big machine, the upper weights about 80 lbs and is 4x10. Because of doing some customer work that needed a better finish, I recently swapped it out for my 4x9 Hoosier which is about half the weight. I didn't even notice a change.

Of course, you can't believe EVERYTHING you read on the internet..:eek::lol::lol::lol:

Be interesting to see this machine being built. You're obviously an engineer.

I'm not a fan of multipurpose tools. Just too inconvenient to swap back and forth for my taste...everyone to their own thing. With a frame that large, you've got lots of room to hang other things on the rear legs and back of the frame.