la bala Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 Any metal workers on here make their own tooling. I was clearing the back of the workshop today and found these bits of kit i made years ago. One is a tool for cold twisting mild steel bar up to 12mm. The other one will twist the same, but also form baskets/ cages from four pieces of 6mm bar welded at the ends, twisted and reverse twisted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriBsa Posted December 12, 2014 Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 (edited) Impressive stuff. That's some force needed to do that. Adjustable bed as well. Proper engineering! Edited December 12, 2014 by TriBsa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonwolf444 Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 That is interesting. Any good for twisting different steels together before forge welding them into damascus steel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted December 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 That is interesting. Any good for twisting different steels together before forge welding them into damascus steel? pmedu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisheruk Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Any chance of a video to show them working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted December 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Any chance of a video to show them working. same principal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrickstar Posted December 14, 2014 Report Share Posted December 14, 2014 Years ago my father made his own lathe and planer he was a template maker by trade looking back they were impressive bits of kit but sadly he has dementia now and is a shadow of his former self Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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