Homemade slip-roll

[dkamp]

A new subject... I'm considering making a slip-roll machine... for rolling steel-wheel rims and other odd things... here's my goal:

To roll a piece of up to 12" wide mild steel 1/4" thick into a 'ring' down to 12" diameter.

Anyone ever made a slip-roller? Suggestions?

 

[jluckey]

There has been a great deal of discussion on the topic on an other forum that I belong too.
www.weldingweb.com

Hope this helps

 

[kmcconaughey]

Dave K2, is this what you're talking about? This is in Dan's shop.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Or are you talking about an "English wheel"?

English Wheel 1

English Wheel 2

English Wheel 3

 

[digger]

Kraig,
The one in Dan's shop is a slip roll machine.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Charlie, thanks, I wasn't certain what a slip roll machine was. I should have done an internet search for a slip roll machine. Sometimes I think things through backwards.... p

 

[digger]

That english wheel is for smoothing out metal after you free hand form it with a BFH or other means, grin
They are great for making fenders and gas tanks for cycles.
They can also do a number on your fingers too, LOL BTDT

 

[bmcmeen]

Kraig -

What, ya go to Dan's house and don't even post pics of the Giddings & Lewis???

 

[dkamp]

Yeah- that's a slip-roll, Kraig... but I don't think that one'd do quarter-inch stock. I figured I'd end up making one just to roll plates no wider than 12" wide, into a diameter no smaller than 20" around. Takes some pretty serious rollers to do 0.250" plate... but having it be narrower helps!

 

[kmcconaughey]

Bryan, is that the machine in the back corner that Dan is completely refurbishing, (including making a brass, or was it a bronze, gear)? If so, when we were looking at it, when I tried to get a photo of it Robb and Art kept getting in the way and when they moved it was only because Dan was showing us something else and I forgot to go back and get a photo.

 

[bmcmeen]

Kraig -

LOL, that kinda stuff ALWAYS happens at Dan's house, no? As many opportunities that I've had to take pics of the G&L, I've yet to remember to get to it.

 

[aaytay]

That thing is awesome! And now that it's all painted and polished up it looks like some kind of a Willy-Wonka-Chocolate-Factory turned torture machine!

 

[kmcconaughey]

Art, I must have been in your way so you couldn't take a photo of it. (

This is the best I got of it.

This one might have been OK had Art not been in the way....... p

 

[kmcconaughey]

Hmmm, I was able to find one with Art and Robb both out of the way. )

 

[aaytay]

I was trying to stay out of Dan's way, unlike THIS guy! ;-)

BTW....Look at what machine is in the background, guess neither one of us can win...

 

[kmcconaughey]

Art, I was standing far enough back, Dan had a hammer in his hand! Robb was the one getting in close. I used the zoom to get closer. )

 

[thoffman]

What was Dan makin' in the pix?

 

[kmcconaughey]

A Brinly style Sleeve Hitch Adapter.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Tom, if you look in the "Ultimate Home Machine Shop" discussion Charlie posted some links to 2 videos of Dan bending the hitch in his shop press. The other 2 videos are of Dan cutting the hubs for dual wheel spacers.


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