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Slip Roller
Hey guys, I’ve never had any use for a slip roll, but currently am in need of one for a specific project to make myself a custom kitchen exhaust hood. Kind of hesitant to buy it just for that one reason, but what else could I use this for? Just looking for some excuses to get one, but also hate a cluttered shop with things I hardly use.
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Hi,
I had one and sold it as I never used it. I use a rubber upper on my English wheel for all projects that I would use a slip roll for. You have no tool marking, unlimited radius sizes and panels lengths with no extra tool to store. B
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That’s what I had in mind and was hoping to hear. I’ve also only used an English wheel a handful of times but I figure I’d get one so I can start making mistakes.
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Pipe Anvil
Gene Winfield has multiple sizes of pipe welded to a saw horse, each with a small gap to take the sheet metal. You can do the same thing by laying the sheet metal on a table and clamping a piece of pipe at the edge and bending around the pipe - carefully. All depends on the radii you are trying to achieve.
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They're handy for making curved channels and curving hollow quadrilateral forms, with a little applied trickery.
Some use them to restore fairness to sheet metal clamping bands used in guitar building by rolling equally from opposite sides to take out errant contours produced by the clamping process. Great for rolling wires and tubing for edging. |
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Ditto on the Gene Winfield pipe anvil, great simple tool, I leave mine outside most of the time when not in use.
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I've been using big pipe to radius bend sheet for a very long time.
Even had a 48in length gap-bolted to the end of a workbench for prying sheet over quickly whilst making several parts. Love my old Chicago 40in slip roll, too. And also using urethane dies over a T-stake, rubber tire in the Wheel, etc. Radii exist in many panels - not all can be made the same way .... Flexibility can be the route to success. Many ways to skin a cat fish.
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I used this method with good results. Never tried two different diameter tubes to form a taper, but would probably work.
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I own a slip roller that, when rotated upside down, also serves as a brake, saves a lot of space but only for light duty work. I don't use it very often but when using it I'm glad to have it.
This video shows pretty much everything I know about using slip rolls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aIGL8D3BA&t=316s Last edited by RatRockx; 02-06-2021 at 05:32 PM. |
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