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Old 05-18-2022, 11:27 AM
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Mark, Thanks for the link. Especially interested in your pictures of plastic dies for the TM air powered hammer. Got one of those and starting to play with making a hotdog die. Hasn't worked out well yet but my lower die had no shape.

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Doing reverses on anticlastic pockets by hand seems to work better for me at least for now. Your art is an inspiration to me when things are being difficult.


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Old 05-18-2022, 09:26 PM
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Mark, Thanks for the link. Especially interested in your pictures of plastic dies for the TM air powered hammer. Got one of those and starting to play with making a hotdog die. Hasn't worked out well yet but my lower die had no shape.

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Doing reverses on anticlastic pockets by hand seems to work better for me at least for now. Your art is an inspiration to me when things are being difficult.


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Hi John,
About your image of the curved hotdog, a hint to drill down into the 'dog w/dia. and blind depth enough to press in your hammer die "stump" - then weld - if not already done.
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Old 05-19-2022, 07:25 AM
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Hose clamps are handy for pulling edges of the form closed.
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Old 05-20-2022, 07:39 PM
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I don't actually use a stump. I use an arbor press and Baltic birch with a spherical cavity carved into it. On of my problems has been the 1.5 inch square arbor shaft that gets in the way when I try to do a long shape that turns into a spiral. So new tooling for the press. A tooling hole was drilled into the end of the arbor shaft and a grub screw added. The tooling is a 3/4 inch ball bearing welded to a 9 inch long 1/2 inch diameter shaft.


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Used the press to stretch the bottom of the metal into the cavity and crush the tucks that formed along the edges. Ended up with a nice long bowl wrapped into a spiral. When the edges are folded over it will become the tubular octopus arms. The long narrow tooling works much better than the old shaft.


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Old 05-21-2022, 11:20 AM
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Very cool project.
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Old 05-26-2022, 01:00 PM
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Got the spiral shrunk about where I wanted it. And it was getting harder to shrink all the time.



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Then proceeded to close the edges onto themselves to form the tube. Join of the edges is not welded yet. I liked the result. Quality not there but the shape is what I want. However.....



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Too much physical effort went into this arm. The multi-turn coil is too clumsy to work with and any change along the coil effects other parts of the coil in ways I can't yet predict. I think I will try a one turn only coil and when I need more I will just weld additional tubing on.
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Old 05-26-2022, 02:09 PM
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Those are looking great. That is a very lively looking tentacle.

Remember, actual octopus tentacles aren’t round, they’re more semi-cylindrical, with stickers on the bottom. That might make things easier to manipulate.
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