An open end wrench of the appropriate size also works for finishing the ends of your beads. Lay the wrench flat at the end of the bead and smack it with a hammer. Works great without building special tools:-)
Thanks for your videos. As Im from Sweden Lazze has been known since I was a teenager (55 today). Ive seen all his videos, but since I found your channel you are my ”go to”. I still grade Lazze and Ron as the best sheet metal guys out there but your videos gives me alot more. And you also seems like a great buy. Keep on doing what youre doing. Thanks from Skellefteå where we now have aprox -15 celsius and 10 cm of snow. 👍🏼🍻
Karl Thanks for taking us to school. You are a very good and solid teacher with your grasp of the subject and your clarity of explanation. The camera work is right on and Christine knows exactly where the eyes need to be focused, Thank you for keeping us old farts in the front row of class. Merry Christmas to you and your families. Thanks again Charlie
Man, you are too kind for giving away the secret sauce on dies and keeping newbs from wasting their money. Too cool! I hope Santa brought you two some good health for your families and some good swap meet karma for parts buying!
I took the die and turned it in the drill press and radiused the rollers edges with a flap wheel on a grinder so they don't dig in work amazing! I made my punch from a socket and extention.
I pnce had a math teacher like karl when he explained it it just made sense when karl exains things it all makes sense thats why i watch all his videos thanks again im working on getting a bead roller now so this was very helpful
An awesome use I've found for the steel flat bottom die is team it up with a top beading die and run over your lines with them first like a small English wheel and it pre-stretches the area and the reduces panel distortion and warping, have you tried louvre dies? I wonder if your gasket punch idea would work to clean the edges of them up too Great vid Karl
Those Radius roll over dies (that you hadnt used before) I repaired a 1930s British sidecar where they had used those so I bought the set. They had used the largest dies for the side then smaller dies to do the floor, since they are all 45degrees they all come together to make a 90 degrees but by using two different sizes they created a radius which decreased radius as it went around the lower edge.
@@T3glider no, they just created a 90 that changed radius as it progressed, its something that looks good as it tucks under the edge. As you point out, it will make for a perfect join over pipe
thanks Karl so much great information here My favorite combination so far is using a pair of step dies on the bottom and a single one in the top to make a channel like what you find in a factory floor pan of older cars. Using the three dies means that it can be done in a single pass and the channel is the same width the whole length with no need to attempt to run parallel lines over a long distance.
No matter the tool, every person has a way of interpreting its use. Some pretty straight forward, some can be super creative. I’ll sure be following when you make that bead roller.
I have watched this entire video, front to back, twice.......once before motorizing a brand new 36" throat roller, and then again today, before trying it out for the first time. Inspiration, and refresher!
Hey Karl, You would make one hell of a metal's teacher. You have a lot of knowledge and skills for a young man. I enjoy your channel and wish I was a young man again. To learn from you to work on projects again. Merry Christmas to you, your wife, family, friends and all your subscribers. Hopefully we all have a Healthy New Year.
Hey mate love watching your channel as well. Now I hand make alot of penals and have learned that before you put your bead roll into you metal by stretching it in the English wheel with a higher radius lower wheel on your English wheel as when you put your bead roll it pushes the stretched metal down so it takes away alot of the wrapping of your penal. Cheers mate Wayne
Thank you for sharing all of your talent and your trial and error experience so that we can have a less frustrating experience fabricating and purchasing new equipment. Stay Awesome Karl !!!
Hey I wanted to show some appreciation for what you two are putting out. I look forward to your videos. I hope you two have a great holiday season. Clint
Nice demo on your bead roller dies and how you use them. Not too long till I'll start making the floor for my rod, so this added to my inspiration. Thumbs up!
Hello, Happy New Year, I wish you and your loved ones health. Cool, super lecture. I didn’t write for a long time, it didn’t work, but I followed. Thanks for the constructiveness!
Hi Karl, look at the last set in the beader, turn around and look at the belt line in your pickup, turn back around and look at the dies again.Could you not do two passes and make a wide, maybe tapering belt line for a door / cab corner with them?
Perfect timing, I’m old school and use whatever I could(hammer, vice, piece of railway retract etc) to bend and form my work piece, I started watching your channel (I watch others too but seriously I have learnt so much more from you) a few months ago I bought a bead roller after watching one of your video’s, yesterday I treated myself to an English wheel. I was always looking for an old original one but they are not easy to come by so I got a medium quality chinese one, I have been modifying and improving it today haha Now I’m learning to do it all, I’m 49 so never too old to learn. Next is a planishing hammer! (Don’t tell the wife ) I wish you and your family (pets included) a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year with lots of success to you. Thank you so much, keep up the great work and passion Regards Shaun
The camera work on these videos is awesome. Getting in at all the right angles makes this really stand out above most other instructional style videos.
Karl, Thanks for going over the difference in dies. As always , your clear, concise explanation makes the learning enjoyable . I appreciate you passing you expertise along to us. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to You & Christina. Rick
Lot's of great info here Karl! This is what I was talking about when you had said some folks wouldn't be happy if it wasn't "Car Related". I'm almost done with my Pro-Shaper English Wjheel build, I have a nice bead roller, and I'm looking into shrinker / stretchers. All obviously car related, but all kinds of other bad ideas crop up. Redoing my hot water heating system for the house in the spring, and I'm going to use ideas like these to build some really nice aluminum radiators for the Wife. Maybe some nice Rose stencils or something. Lots of stuff that doesn't have to be car related!
Ever tried spraying you table with Bostik Top Coat? Just make it rust free, then spray it down. Let it dry up and buff it like wax. Do that a couple times at first, then you can just do touch ups as needed. It makes your material glide around like crazy, and will stop it from rusting further!
I love your channel! you and your wife's happy upbeat attitudes are contagious ! you have inspired me to dust off my bead roller and start building stuff again So thank you
I watched the whole vid, the very last one was what i needed and it was the shortest, thats ok everything was informative and i learned.i hope you play with the last set more , thankx for that!
Thanks for posting this. If you want to explore different bead rolling dies on the cheap, look up Jere Kirkpatrick's vid on using washers and spacers as dies. Also polyurethane skateboard wheels make excellent soft dies cheap.
To help with the track mark, I machined a couple of flat rolls of the same diameter as the back of the die I use, about 50mm long. They slide over the shaft behind the upper or lower die (depends of where the track mark will show) to help support the back of my panel, it helps with track marks and a little with the wrapping. I don't know if it makes sense.
Excellent presentation of really informative information. Timing could not be better because I’m getting ready to pull the trigger on an Eastwood bead roller. I really like the fact that you reinforced the idea that the Eastwood dies are very useable. Thanks. You are a true gentle craftsman. 🙏
Thanks for this video. I have a very old hand cranked bead roller. I need to make a set of dies for it. I've been looking for some at flea markets but haven't seen any in 40 years of looking. I'm retired and just playing with a hobby. Good Luck, Rick
Another great video. I agree with your favorite dies as those are pretty much my go to dies. I do use the urethane lower die more with my tipping die. I love Lazze as his videos are what got me interested in sheet metal manipulation.
Great lessons with what dies can mix with others etc. I was thinking with my set that I could taper off where the tracking happens with my lathe. I never did cause I thought they were hardened steel... The possibilities are endless 👍👍
Man u keep a tight ass shop! Very well equipped from the looks of it. Very informative, not redundant, solid insight and really great camera work. Thank u for your contribution to the slowly growing knowledge that resides in our noggins
Hiya great video, thanks very much for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. I hope you both have a great🎄 Christmas & a fantastic New Year 👍
I think I'd learn more if we did a collaborative effort on my 62 C10 rust bucket pick up, lol. Thanks for the video, it will help me make panels I can't buy already made for the cab.
Great video. The past 6 years I've been using the Mittler Bros 36" with a variety of their dies to add more detail to my sculptures. It's nice seeing different brands and profiles compared. Also like your modifications you've done on the lathe to avoid track marks. Great tips and information for anyone at any level.
If I can make a suggestion, mount a key ring retractor reel to the top of your bead roller to replace the chain on the hex key you use to R&R the dies. I'd like thank you for the videos, I really wish I had access to the training you provide when I was younger. Thanks again!
To avoid track marks, at least with some sets, put a piece of bicycle inner tube (or few layers of tape) over the flat of the die. This would create a soft surface and push the panel away from the unwanted part of the die so that track marks would not be formed.
Brilliant just brilliant learning alot man . You and Kristina have a good Christmas and a brilliant new year take care. Jamie old hot rodder from Scotland
Hi Karl. Thanks for another great video.. The top tipping die I use has the angled flange on the inside of the die. This leaves a flat face which allows a full 90 degree flange.
I like any fabrication work especially when I learn a little trick like you showed with using heat to release stress from welding. I work at a steel mill and I have seen a three inch round bar that was a hard grade of steel that was quenched in water after being red hot and it split half into from the stress put into it from the quench.
Excellent video, exactly what I needed to watch, I mainly work with copper and some of the sets you showed will definitely make my life easier, I'd like to see your hem roll set and how to work them a bit more.
