Gday from Geelong Australia
 

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

Welcome to Allmetalshaping Phillip!:)

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 :)

thanks for the welcome
 

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

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.
http://www.allmetalshaping.com/pictu...pictureid=2495

Some of the tooling that I have for it.
http://www.allmetalshaping.com/pictu...pictureid=2949

my nibbler
 

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

Attachment 11442

Attachment 11443

Attachment 11444

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.

http://www.allmetalshaping.com/pictu...pictureid=2945

http://www.allmetalshaping.com/pictu...pictureid=3002

http://www.allmetalshaping.com/pictu...pictureid=2999

http://www.allmetalshaping.com/pictu...pictureid=2997

http://www.allmetalshaping.com/pictu...&pictureid=703