Metal spinning is amazing, especially if you are only used to just folding the stuff. The way it flows is so unbelievable, it just not what you would expect it to do. Glad you liked it, now find on RU-vid how it is traditionally done, maybe there's a video somewhere of how silver or pewter candle sticks are made, that would be a real eye opener for you. As for me I have the recurring lurgy that is doing the rounds over here, cold like symptoms that get better and then come back again. Still it is an excuse to stay in the warm, although I have a BMW gearbox end cover to resleeve and it needs a new unworn part to get the size of the bore just right, I don't work to tenths, I get it spot on 🤪
@@chrisstephens6673 I have not been sick in a couple years. We will keep you in our prayers. Hopefully you can get that thing kicked in. Get that BMW finished. Well, it's time to go to work. Have a good day, buddy.
Nice close shot. Wow, you sure made a lot! I know you described about the forming wheel last time but have to say I'm still not quite clear on that totally.
If possible yes, a few stills would be very handy. Sympathies for your connection - that sucks. I remember way back when the best upload I had was little better than dial-up - and that was with a Hughes satellite dish - $100 a month for bugger all! Even download maxed at 1.5MB. Although pricey I can now upload to YT at about 12MB/s. Appreciate what you do put up. :)
ChrisB257 video videos I save to be loaded at SMEE, picture videos load quite quickly from here. I will take a few photos later for you but there isn't a lot to see, only 4 bits once the bearing is pressed in.
Actually Chris - just a few pics which would help clarify - just email them too me if you could. Use this email, which is altered to stop pickup too easily.... alumbankweb at comcast.net (no spaces when used correctly with 'at' symbol). Could be you already have it - can't remember right now.
I guess if you would find it useful others might too, so I'll stick them on YT. I wont do a how to build on anything of mine, they are usually so simple that once you see it you should be able to copy it, and if you (you in general not you in particular) feel you have a need you should be able to work out how to make it., if you can't you really don't need one. :>)
Thanks for the question. The bearing is a standard ball race inside a homemade hardened steel ring. The exact shape is not overly important just as long as it is free from sharp edges that would cut the metal you want to spin.
Good work and well presented. As you say it is amazing to see the metal 'flow'. I had a go at metal spinning in order to make a copper dome and filler lid for a 5" BR-9F loco tender. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SmhMQOsF6WA.html I used a piece of bar in the tool post that I had hand ground and polished spherical-ish. The former was a piece of fence post turned to shape! I had to use oil to reduce friction and many annealing cycles as the copper work hardened. It was a bit of a lash up but the results were surprisingly good. If I do any spinning in the future I will replicate the spinning tool. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Craig
Thaks for the sub, clearly you have good taste, I hope you wont be disappointed. I learnt "proper" metal spinning to make a part for a barometer I was restoring a goodly number of years ago, since then I have only done a few things but they couldn't have been done any other way. When I was asked to make these parts, the assumption was to make press tooling. Then I thought to make a roller ended under the armpit spinning tool, then why not toolpost mounted and the rest is history. There is another operation to be done on these parts, some internal spinning, watch this space. ATB c
