I have been watching your series from Australia and you are doing an awesome job thanks Wray. Its good to show how to fix a mistake...and tips like never play with a valley.!
This is exactly what I have been wanting to see, how to come back from an over crown situation. The problem with watching talented experienced shapers is the piece commonly comes out right first try. This gives an idea of how to progress and learn from those mistakes, a series of repairing common mistakes would be a good watch
Sorry to hear you weren't feeling well, hope things are turning around. My selfishness makes it nice to see the progress on this project! It also was cool that you demonstrated a "mistake" so we could learn salvage techniques.
I had the usual fall cold and now it looks like I have another trying to fight me. I thought the mistake was some of my best work, it allowed the fix to be shown.
I have the patience of Zion. But to see you match it ,makes me realise why some people think l'm slightly wacko. Most people would have binned this by now and started again, l'm tempted! Good on you Wray!
Wray I noticed you use the wide English wheel the most. I am in the process of laying out my own English wheel and have a 8" dia. chunk of steel for the top wheel that is 4" wide. Should I use it as is or maybe cut it down to 3" wide? What is a good diameter for the lower wheels?
My large yellow English wheel's top wheel is 5.5 inches wide x 9.875 inches in diameter. The anvils are 4.750" wide and 5" in diameter. I use my large yellow English wheel most of the time, once in a while ( less the 5 percent of the time I use one of my other English wheels in the shop that has narrower anvils) I also have a English wheel set up for doing reverse curves that has a 5" diameter top wheel which is more user friendly for planishing tight radius reverse curves. Once you use wide wheels you will never wheel with narrow wheels again. They work so much better. This craft is tradition bound in it's thinking. The general beliefs are you have to gas weld aluminum, you must have a cast English wheel, you must make panels by pattern wheeling, etc etc. The power hammer guys just laugh at the poor fools that English wheel. Metal shaping, religion, politics, are all the same divided into small subgroups that all feel they are the only ones doing it right. Truth is there always about four different ways to do any human task. There are a million bad ways as well.
Why do I get the impression you really don't like to anneal the metal, as you are shaping it? I'm sure you have a valid reason, not being a smart ass, just trying to learn.
I have been watching your series from Australia and you are doing an awesome job thanks Wray.
Its good to show how to fix a mistake...and tips like never play with a valley.!
This is exactly what I have been wanting to see, how to come back from an over crown situation. The problem with watching talented experienced shapers is the piece commonly comes out right first try. This gives an idea of how to progress and learn from those mistakes, a series of repairing common mistakes would be a good watch
That Is what I was thinking. Mistakes are opportunities to teach the lesson.
Sorry to hear you weren't feeling well, hope things are turning around. My selfishness makes it nice to see the progress on this project! It also was cool that you demonstrated a "mistake" so we could learn salvage techniques.
I had the usual fall cold and now it looks like I have another trying to fight me. I thought the mistake was some of my best work, it allowed the fix to be shown.
The difference between a beginner and an expert is that the expert knows how to deal with the mistakes they know they'll make.
Mistakes are opportunities, take advantage of them.😁😁😁
an expert would predict when a mistake is about to happen and stop it happening
I have the patience of Zion. But to see you match it ,makes me realise why some people think l'm slightly wacko. Most people would have binned this by now and started again, l'm tempted! Good on you Wray!
Great to see you back at it and feeling better.
Brilliant explanation of hot shrinking, thank you 👍
~ The Doctor is IN !
Fantastic.
Grunting seems to help quite a bit!!
Hi Alan, yes, that is the tips and tricks secret.😁😁😁
Why don't you put your pattern upside down under the panel to put reference marks on the opposite side Wray?
Wray I noticed you use the wide English wheel the most. I am in the process of laying out my own English wheel and have a 8" dia. chunk of steel for the top wheel that is 4" wide. Should I use it as is or maybe cut it down to 3" wide? What is a good diameter for the lower wheels?
My large yellow English wheel's top wheel is 5.5 inches wide x 9.875 inches in diameter. The anvils are 4.750" wide and 5" in diameter. I use my large yellow English wheel most of the time, once in a while ( less the 5 percent of the time I use one of my other English wheels in the shop that has narrower anvils) I also have a English wheel set up for doing reverse curves that has a 5" diameter top wheel which is more user friendly for planishing tight radius reverse curves. Once you use wide wheels you will never wheel with narrow wheels again. They work so much better. This craft is tradition bound in it's thinking. The general beliefs are you have to gas weld aluminum, you must have a cast English wheel, you must make panels by pattern wheeling, etc etc. The power hammer guys just laugh at the poor fools that English wheel. Metal shaping, religion, politics, are all the same divided into small subgroups that all feel they are the only ones doing it right. Truth is there always about four different ways to do any human task. There are a million bad ways as well.
what grade is the alu being used?
I use 3003 H-14 For car bodies .050"and .063" work very well.
first fan!
Aluminum melts at 800c / 1470F. It will lose structural integrity at half that temperature
Why do I get the impression you really don't like to anneal the metal, as you are shaping it? I'm sure you have a valid reason, not being a smart ass, just trying to learn.
Hi Scotty, I only anneal if I absolutely have to, which might be silly on my part.😁😁😁