Yea I got to play in the garage, having a go at something I saw in a post from Thrashsmith. A tapered loop or ring.
I do not have a forge or heat or an anvil but I was wondering if possible to roll a tapered ring to fit better to say the taper of a flower pot. So lets waste a bit of steel bar, 30 x 8mm in the ring roller on edge and roll.
This led me to a mod on the top of the bender it self. Added a piece of flat bar on edge to beef up the top bracket and stop it bending, time will tell if it works. Also took some metal off the bottom of the moving section to get me another 8mm down travel, so I should be able to roll dow to around 7 to 8 inch from the previous 10 inch diameter.
Then back to the flat rolls and try to bend in a loop. Continuous use of a mallet to keep the bar in the rolls, but it eventually went round and in doing so I would assume took most of the curve out of the bar.
When joined up and welded there is still a taper on the ring and this is 2 mm in 30 thickness so not much. The larger diameter is 268mm and the inner is 264mm so not a lot approx 3.8 degrees.
Not really worth the effort and scrapes to the rollers with the use of the mallet.
Wondering if there is another way considering my lack of heat.
You probably can not see the effect of such a small taper on these pics.
So open to ideas of things that could be done with simple stuff?
Adrian
I do not have a forge or heat or an anvil but I was wondering if possible to roll a tapered ring to fit better to say the taper of a flower pot. So lets waste a bit of steel bar, 30 x 8mm in the ring roller on edge and roll.
This led me to a mod on the top of the bender it self. Added a piece of flat bar on edge to beef up the top bracket and stop it bending, time will tell if it works. Also took some metal off the bottom of the moving section to get me another 8mm down travel, so I should be able to roll dow to around 7 to 8 inch from the previous 10 inch diameter.
Then back to the flat rolls and try to bend in a loop. Continuous use of a mallet to keep the bar in the rolls, but it eventually went round and in doing so I would assume took most of the curve out of the bar.
When joined up and welded there is still a taper on the ring and this is 2 mm in 30 thickness so not much. The larger diameter is 268mm and the inner is 264mm so not a lot approx 3.8 degrees.
Not really worth the effort and scrapes to the rollers with the use of the mallet.
Wondering if there is another way considering my lack of heat.
You probably can not see the effect of such a small taper on these pics.
So open to ideas of things that could be done with simple stuff?
Adrian