Demonstration of homemade DYI metal roller on 14 ga, 2" square tube. Roller is powered by a Harbor Freight electric pipe threader. In the video I used a 2 ton hydraulic jack. A 3 or 4 ton jack would work better.
I bought one of those threaders years ago. Damned thing caught fire right after pulling the trigger. The angry pixies and magic smoke just rolled out and the fire right with it.
Chord would actually be where the radius starts and stops. A chord is any straight line across the a circle including the diameter. But extremely impressive and I’m here for your advice. lol 😊
Nice copy of a SWAG Off Road/Horror Freight tubing roller. I milled my hex long enough to fill the drive hole completely on the power head because I did not want just part of the hexagon hole bearing all of the torque.
Not sure why it wouldn't. I bot the pipe threader in April. Maybe they've added a safety feature....hard telling. I kept mine triggered the whole time. If you zoom in you can see I put a velcro strap around the trigger. Then used a footpedal control from Harbor Freight to power on/off.
Why not put some scale where the top drive wheel is to measure how far down it is? This way you will know how far to push it down to get specific radius (obviously also depends on spacing of the bottom wheels so idk 5 scales needed?)
Preferible meterle un motoreductor ese esmeriladaptado se puede quemar tanto esfuerzo ala firme pero si es para solo rolar unos tubos puede ser pero amas diámetro o radio más fuerza usa esa máquina esmeril o como le digan ustede
That was nearly useful. Using a pipe threader is brilliant but since the design requires parts that don't exist and have to be fabricated from a lathe it is not useful to other people.
…buy a small lathe, or use a drill press to hold the workpiece and a 4-1/2” angle grinder to shape dies or whatever. What I’m confused over your comment is that this is a vid about FABRICATING STUFF so your comment doesn’t make any sense. I don’t have a machine lathe myself, but I have a wood lathe with a three-jaw chuck, die grinders, angle grinders, files, sandpaper….. I use basic tools to make more sophisticated tools, and the sophisticated tools to make even better tools. Sometimes I buy tools like vises, wood chisels, wrenches, cordless drills, a shop press, welders, and other stuff. I’m thinking you just aren’t a fabricator. Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t make it stupid.
