Checking in from Va mnts

[Intheshop]

Retired builder that spends way too much time "playin" in our shop,haha.Got a very nice full-on cabinet shop,all welding processes,nice machineshop(cpl lathes,BP,surface grinder,cpl bandsaws)........

Having grown up around building,many family and friends have been in the sheet metal trades(HVAC,Roofing,auto resto,etc).So,it was always a dream to get/use some sheet metal equipment.Have a nicely restored '47 137 Pexto,1910 slitter/circle shear,an older 3-1 machine,H-frame hyd press that gets used as a low-buck pressbrake,bead roller.Am finishing an English wheel.

We already had a PU truckload of handtools,have done a goodly amt of standing seam roofing(copper,tin).Last few years really got serious with our dust collection in cabinet shop....no plastic ducts here,haha.Have learned to make pretty much all of our fittings....some nice custom pcs.Even make our blastgates.Also do custom range hoods and copper cornices for some of our higher $$ kitchens.

So,thats why I'm here.Just want to keep learning about sheet metal.Very interested in historic metal cornice work on old buildings(storefront applications).

I go by the name BW.

[Jere]

Hello BW and welcome.

How about some picks of your E-Wheel in progress?

Jere

[HEATNBEAT]

Hi BW and welcome!

[Peter Tommasini]

Hi BW welcome to the forum
Peter

[David Gardiner]

Hello BE welcome to the forum.

David

[Intheshop]

Thanks for the welcome gentleman.

Snuck in some precious time on EW this morning.Worked on the anvil holder.....its the kind with "post" legs vs endplate style.Don't know why,just saw it on,I believe it was some cat in England doing vids on Jag fenders?They look kind of cool so went with that design.

This is a bttm feeder...in that it's the traditional anvil adj,comin up from bttm.Had planned to go steal one of our Safeway scaffold,adj screw-legs.They're 1 1/4" Acme threads.Will save that for the next wheel.

This one utilized a bloomin adjuster "cartridge" that came out of one of those old satellite dishes.Remember those big honkin ones from the last century?They had servo motor,adjuster cartridges to phase the dish......so thats what I used.Intrestingly it came out of the yard of a late 1700's house that we resurected.....not like anyone wants a "dish" in your historic'y plantation house?They said lose it.

I'll shoot some fixture pics on the weld sequence.......