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Old School Hand Metalforming in Copper
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Interesting there wasn’t much health and safety back in 1978. I worked in workshops like that back in the day. No ear protection or extraction for the lead and pitch. Also the making of the lead dust! That’s really bad for your health.
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I thoroughly enjoyed watching that video, thanks for posting it.
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Nice old film of the old shop tools.
Funny, but the place reminds me of a museum, with the craftsmen doing the work with the tools in that shop on a "display" basis .... just somehow does not feel like a working shop to me. Loved watching, tho.
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Kent http://www.tinmantech.com "All it takes is a little practical experience to blow the he!! out of a perfectly good theory." --- Lloyd Rosenquist, charter member AWS, 1919. |
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Great. From the first picture I knew it was from Germany. There I see a combined bending machine + bending rolls. Bending machine or rollers are rotated on one pin.
Yes they knocks on and on when it knocks and it is done. Beautiful is how the old man doing like a knocker. Knock, knock and knocks. I get take sometime advice from an old man 84 years old. He can't walk, he is only sit and knock and knock and knock. I fixed his terrible hobby EW and made a narrow wheel attachment for them. I used the fitness bike again. He is very happy. I feel good for it. I recently spoke to a man who works in aviation. They have an old expert there who wants to retire and they still beg him to work. For 50 years of this work, he is knocking at night and in bed of inertia. He knocks and knocks. He wants to die in peace and they want him to still knock. Young people do not want to knock, nor do they want to learn. The mobile phone screen is more interesting.
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Very cool seeing the pitchwork teaser and other old tools, but gotta agree that it looks more like a display/preservation workshop at a museum or historical society than an actual workshop. Having that big electric buffer (and likely 3phase, at that size) but soldering with an actual iron heated in the forge in 1978 makes no cents. Pun intended.
This little Dover reprint of Metalwork for Craftsman by Kronquist covers some of the craft demonstrated in the video. It isn't expensive and has some relevant info for what we do. Reaching into a deep vessel to lift a dent with a buzzing iron has application to fixing things like motorcycle tanks. I've had it for years and find it to have unique content compared to the other metalshaping books I have- https://www.amazon.com/Metalwork-Cra.../dp/0486227898
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It doesn't sound like a museum to me. I've seen several similar workshops. There was nothing in them. Just some hammer and some parts. They do great things.
Recently, one of them was repairing my crashed car. He had nothing in the workshop except a welding machine and a hammer. The car was repaired in two days. I met an ambulance from the right .... Everyone told me to drop scrap the car. But it has cheap traffic and I always have enough space around me the parking lot. I was very lucky, the blow was terrible. Incomprehensibly, the car frame did not moved. Only below. Exchange only doors, fender and little steering with rod. The Lord was the master of his craft. But he cannot shape deep the sheet. This is a paradox. I'd think about it for a long time and he do boom, boom and it was done very good. DSC099241.jpg
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Jaroslav Last edited by Jaroslav; 03-19-2020 at 08:31 AM. |
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My mother and grandmother belonged to the Arts And Crafts Society in Portland in the late forties. This was an unfinished coffee? pot that she left along with several sheets of copper and a few tools.
PB180575.jpg
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Norm Henderson Last edited by galooph; 03-21-2020 at 04:42 AM. |
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Copper kettle manufacturing in Ohio, USA still going strong today:
https://youtu.be/aQB6NJFyBq8
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Good to see that shop still doing production. Love the work. Thanks.
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