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Old 05-06-2022, 06:22 PM
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Default Curved tapered tubes (tentacles)

Thinking about trying to fab an octopus out of 22 gauge CRS. The tentacles look like the hardest thing. Made a straight taper tube, a slightly curved tapered tube, and a fairly curvy tapered tube. If I can halve the curve radius I will be about where needed. These were all sunk on a stump.


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Old 05-06-2022, 07:51 PM
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Hi,

Neat project. I had made some similar tubes out of 3003-H14 x .040" aluminium a month ago. The process was all done with a bench stake, cross peen hammer and patience. By varying the width of the strip of material, it adds more character to the part.

Let us know how it turns out.

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Old 05-07-2022, 10:31 AM
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Very cool.



I've specifically had octopus projects on my mind, using aluminum welded with oxy/hyd rig so could limit flux use & required cleaning afterwards. So far I'm still practicing the welding part..


Like Bill said, please keep us posted with progress.
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Old 05-11-2022, 11:34 AM
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Default Octopus arms

Hmmmm, seems octopi have arms not tentacles. So this is my progress on making octopus arms. Got the arm radius to 3 inches but think I really need 2 inch radius. Next step to to tighten up the stump cavities used. 22 gauge CRS strip was 2.5 inch on one end, .75 inch on the other and 12 inches long.


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Old 05-12-2022, 12:10 PM
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You might try bending over a stake rather than into a stump. Look up sinusoidal stake and anticlastic raising s used in jewelry and silver smithing. The techniques scale up.
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Old 05-12-2022, 01:32 PM
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Default Transistion Octopus arm

Lewis,


Yes, I have been playing with jewelry techniques. Creative Metal Forming by Longhi and Eid has been a great resource. Modified the approaches for steel a little bit. Used a giant oak one pocket stake and a steel horseshoe stake to crush the reverse into the stake pocket for my curved 2 sided fish. The sides of the horseshoe stake constrain the sides of the reverse so the shape can't escape.


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Now trying to downsize that tooling for octopus arms. Still experimenting.


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