chunkolini
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I occasionally need a few smallish rings, usually I make them on my Metalcraft Powerbender.
I have an idea floating round that would need dozens of rings around 60ish mm. Maing these four or five at a time would be a real bind so I set to thinking. Looked at buying them in cheap but it could be a whole heap of them.
Then the other night I had an idea. Have a tube that can be rotated around a fixed point and roll the rings around that using a fixed fulcrum or whatever.
This is the MkII version, made this afternoon.
8mm bar, worked treat, This using the cheapo stuff straight off the coil. Very soft and usually a pain to roll into curves because it is all twisted, in fact I never use it but bought a few lengths by mistake last year.
Well pleased, the black finish stuff is harder to do this with, I decided not to bother using the bright version as I could see me getting smacked in the kisser by the levers.
The MkI version showed that my daft idea works, I used thin walled tubing and had the retaining hole at the bottom, so the coils formed on the way up the rotating shaft. of course it was impossible to get them off without choppinng off the retaining thingy. The thin walled tubing deformed quickly as well.
So it was off on the scrounge round the farm I fond a length of thicker tubing in a puddle, perfect, the rest of it came out of my offcuts box.
I have an idea floating round that would need dozens of rings around 60ish mm. Maing these four or five at a time would be a real bind so I set to thinking. Looked at buying them in cheap but it could be a whole heap of them.
Then the other night I had an idea. Have a tube that can be rotated around a fixed point and roll the rings around that using a fixed fulcrum or whatever.
This is the MkII version, made this afternoon.
8mm bar, worked treat, This using the cheapo stuff straight off the coil. Very soft and usually a pain to roll into curves because it is all twisted, in fact I never use it but bought a few lengths by mistake last year.
Well pleased, the black finish stuff is harder to do this with, I decided not to bother using the bright version as I could see me getting smacked in the kisser by the levers.
The MkI version showed that my daft idea works, I used thin walled tubing and had the retaining hole at the bottom, so the coils formed on the way up the rotating shaft. of course it was impossible to get them off without choppinng off the retaining thingy. The thin walled tubing deformed quickly as well.
So it was off on the scrounge round the farm I fond a length of thicker tubing in a puddle, perfect, the rest of it came out of my offcuts box.