Gday from Geelong Australia

[Phillip Townrow]

i have fabricated in metal for most of my life, just heavier stuff,
but now i plan to aquire the skills needed to work with thinner materials. this is because as i get to retirement my plan is to rebuild some old lancias that i have had stored for 10 years, all the steel for them came out of Soviet Union and it rusted so bad, but they are getting rare now,

i do have a workshop with milling machine
and very good welders, everything from tig mig stick and submerged arc, and am building cnc contolled plasma and milling / drilling machines.
hope this is not too much

[HEATNBEAT]

Welcome to Allmetalshaping Phillip!

[Toprodz]

Welcome aboard Phillip, sounds like you have a great work shop and is going to become even better with the addition of the cnc machines. when you get a chance post up some pictures of your projects. You will enjoy your time here as there are some pretty clever people on board

[Phillip Townrow]

what i did forget to mention, i do have a nibbler medium and it is my pride and joy, which i what to be able use it for a lot more things,
i do have some tooling, (loovering)? tool, straight cutting, curve cutting,
and shape cutting,
i have made a 5 mm punch and die with a polyurethane stripper,
i have had this for 15 years and you do not want to know how little i paid for it, they were once worth nothing,
the guy that i bought it from only used it to make the s/s ends for chicken rotisseries.
i have bought 6 meters of 20 mm dia flame hardenable steel so i have plenty for tooling,
i would like to see what other tooling others have for their nibblers

[Joe Hartson]

Philip, welcome and thanks for the introduction. I also have a Nibbler Medium and find it to be a great machine. You are right at one time they were worth nothing, mine was left in place when a steel company went out of business.
Here is a picture of mine.


Some of the tooling that I have for it.

[Phillip Townrow]

thanks all for the welcome,
here are some pictures of my nibbler

nibbler medium 1.jpg

tooling-1.JPG

nibbler medium.jpg

[Joe Hartson]

This set of tool holders was developed by Ron Nadia and are very useful. You can make male and female dies that are from a verity of materials that fit the holders and form almost any shape you want.