Recent content by jamscal

It's a Siegmund 28mm table

I have a lot of benders but recently I made this mount for the small stock bender to attach to my fixture table. It’s pretty awesome just doing this test setup. Got a fixture holding up the material and one for a stop…so a lot more repeatable than most…and multiple bends in the same plane over...

Love it, use it almost daily. I pay for the first tier...$20 I think. It does sometimes forget some details if I have a long 'conversation' going. I don't think of 'trusting' or 'not trusting' it so much. It's a good tool that will get better. At the very least it's more like Tundra1 said; a...

.42 cents/lb here in Louisville, KY for hrpo (7ga and 1/4") I have only 3 employees so we're a pretty small fab shop.

My answer is no way. I worked at a shop trying to spot weld .063 aluminum and it only worked some of the time. We had industrial water cooled spot welders with special tips.

I own a fab shop and use Lehigh Valley. There are better abrasives...maybe the big names last 3x as long... but they cost 5x as much. Their ceramic (red) flappers are very good. I get metabo slicers from them (cut offs) and their clean and strip discs too.

I've sold a few of these but have a bunch left so if you see this ad in 6 months chances are I'll still have one. I kept one for my shop and they are very nice and smooth compared to the cheapy ones most people have. Thanks!

Dynabrade 43515 6" extension Die Grinder $594 on amazon Yours for $250 shipped. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AML3E8Q/?tag=atomicindus08-20 These are Brand New in the Box with literature and wrenches. I have over 10 of them. These are top of the line USA made die grinders. jamscal -at- att...

I wanted to build one a few years back but ran into the same problem. Did a bunch of searching. By the time you buy even cheap hydraulics you're almost to the cost of an entire press. I bought a HF 50 ton and modded it to my purposes.

I don't make bomber seats but I do -some- forming of aluminum. I use 3003 .063 aluminum and don't have to anneal it. Just playing around with the hammer on a shot bag I can make a pretty deep dish with no cracking. General bending, rolling, shrinking...no problems with that material.

Push nut.

The ones in my 6000 sq ft building are lapped 4" and welded, fwiw.

Looks good. I saw a couple instagram posts where they made straight fence panels and then sent each side through the section roller... Instant curved panels, no complex fitup.

If you can drill 2 holes...one large one small...or there are some convenient preexisting holes...you can use J-nuts. (j-clips...I'm sure there are other names for them.)

Sounds like you bought a meat saw. http://www.birosaw.com/