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  1. #16
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    Henry,

    That is a masterpiece (this is of cause coming from someone who has never used one, and knows very little about them, OK I will go back to the woodworking forum were I belong). I look forward to seeing it with the cast legs.


    Cheers,


    Camo

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    Default Now in Al.

    We have just done 2 in aluminium.
    This is mine, we had modded the pattern to make it stiffer after some feedback.
    I then double sided taped on some 6mm ply to each side and redid the fillets bigger in plasticine. That took the centre web from 25mm to about 40mm.
    There have been about 12 of the original cast iron ones made.
    16 off the modded pattern and the 2 in Al. 30 in total.
    When we started this exercise we were thinking 4.
    2 for the panel bashers, 1 for my mate the machinist and one for me the patternmaker.
    H
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    Wow

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    Beautiful work.

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    You selling these now?
    …..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSEL74 View Post
    You selling these now?
    The cast iron ones have been available thru Hare and Forbes for most of this year.
    Tommasinni took one to SEMA the hot rod show in Vegas, don't know how he went.
    He also sells them from his workshop and demos in Melbourne.
    The Al casting was meant to be a one off at my initiative for myself but one of the panel bashers got one also. I guess it will be easier to load and unload for demos.

    I am not involved in the commercial side of things I am doing the Patternmaking for the Ewheels and other products on a barter basis.
    I have a Morgan that the boys have done chassis work on and a Mazda 3 wheel ute that needs major body work. My mate the machinist has a '34 Fargo in the back of my shop having the grill and guards massaged.
    H.
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    Fantastic work (though I wonder how the aluminium ones will stand up - or are they just decorative samples?).

    The bottom roller looks flat. IIRC the ones we had when I was an apprentice, had at least a couple of interchangeable bottom rollers, of varying radii (I don't recall a flat one). Do these come with more than one bottom roller? (no, I don't want to buy one - just asking)

    Cheers, Vann.
    Gatherer of rusty planes tools...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vann View Post
    Fantastic work (though I wonder how the aluminium ones will stand up - or are they just decorative samples?).

    The bottom roller looks flat.

    Cheers, Vann.
    Hi Vann,
    The Al has been heat treated, that and the choice of alloy plus the increase of the centre rib from 25 to 40mm should make it usable.
    It was my idea to do the Al casting, just because we could I guess.
    My mate Hugh the machinist part of this project has his cast iron version in my shed for the foreseeable future so we will be able to compare them in use.
    They come with 4 bottom wheels of different radii.
    The one in the pic is the flattest, you can just see the contact line in the centre if you look closely.
    What make was the one you used in your youth?
    Was it locally made, were they ever made in NZ?
    Here in Oz John Heine, A P Lever and McPhersons all made cast iron versions.
    Regards
    H.
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    Quote Originally Posted by clear out View Post
    What make was the one you used in your youth?
    Was it locally made, were they ever made in NZ?
    Here in Oz John Heine, A P Lever and McPhersons all made cast iron versions.
    I wish I could remember, but I left there in 1980, and the place closed about 1993. I do remember the name Heine on some equipment (the big 8' guilotine maybe?). We also had a big power nibbler that was German - and rumoured to have been acquired as 'war reparations' after WW1. And although the overhead lineshafts were long gone, there was a large sheetmetal roller in the coppersmiths shop that still had a lineshaft - apparently it wasn't worth changing to direct drive, way back. It was almost never used (shame). This was at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops in South Auckland.

    But back to the wheeling machines. I don't know about Holden panels, but at tech (mid 1970s), we had to make up a Morris Minor rear mudguard, which must be similar. Mine was rather flat I'm afraid . Again I didn't take notice of who the manufacturer was .

    Cheers, Vann.
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