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Roverlord off road spares
25th June 2017, 02:38 PM
Found this interesting, vid on how some metal is folded.

https://www.facebook.com/105532069860055/videos/222611791485415/
stealth
25th June 2017, 03:32 PM
Fascinating to learn just how things are made.
ATH
26th June 2017, 06:02 PM
Very interesting thnx. Looks like the basic way of forming many shapes in metal hasn't changed much except that much of it is now controlled by button pressing instead of manually.
Interesting to see the way they did the roofing/wall sheets as I worked for a company who put the steel through a rolling machine and then it was cut to length after the forming as opposed to the length being cut first as in the film.
Different method but same result.
AlanH.
The ho har's
26th June 2017, 07:10 PM
We use a English wheel here...very old fashioned but works a treat..Shrinkers and stretchers work equally as well.

Mrs hh
V8Ian
26th June 2017, 09:13 PM
How do you coil tube on an english wheel? [bigwhistle] [wink11]
crash
27th June 2017, 07:40 AM
Interesting to see the way they did the roofing/wall sheets as I worked for a company who put the steel through a rolling machine and then it was cut to length after the forming as opposed to the length being cut first as in the film.
Different method but same result.
AlanH.

My brother worked with a guttering company that formed the gutter on sight - they had a big roll of metal and then it went through a series of roller dies and out spat the guttering. They would then cut the formed gutter to length.
The ho har's
27th June 2017, 11:42 AM
How do you coil tube on an english wheel? [bigwhistle] [wink11]

You don't
crash
27th June 2017, 06:58 PM
That is some pretty thick steel they are rolling - looks at least 1inch thick
Stuck
29th June 2017, 09:31 PM
My brother worked with a guttering company that formed the gutter on sight - they had a big roll of metal and then it went through a series of roller dies and out spat the guttering. They would then cut the formed gutter to length.
Those blokes are unreal. On a site at which I was working one of the first year apprentice sparkies was absolutely dumbfounded as to how you could fit a length of gutter that long into a van that small.:Rolling: