Recent content by tylerae40

okay guys heres a few pics of what I've been making in my spare time when home. sorry if the pics are huge

Hello everyone, just an update to say I now have a job. I am a third year adult apprentice boilermaker with only 12 months left of my apprenticeship, till I'm signed off as a tradesman. So I'm now slowly getting back on track with paying bills which is great! I feel for anyone who loses their...

Well i haven't posted for a fair while on this project. I haven't touched this project for almost a year or more, due to lack of interest and just too many other jobs etc to do. I recently moved the truck out of my dad's shed to make way for a big cleanup and sort out. I recently lost my job as...

some snap on ratchets, the rest of the tools are a mix of garage sale, store brought and swap meet finds ranging from sp, sidchrome, kinchrome, Lisle and an all sorts collection of japanese and chinese stuff plus old hand made tools.

If it has two small rollers it'd be an English wheel, used to put curves both ways in sheet metal , like making an old car fender or pannel. The rollers on these have curves both ways in different sizes depending on what you are doing. The rollers which are for rolling up sheet metal in one...

Cheers K13, and everyone else. Yes what i am making is a set of ring rollers, I've done a through google search and I've found that most of the light duty (hand driven) rollers are driven by only one roller- the rest are driven by two rollers- either through gears or by chain. Also on a side...

The top roller is the one that moves up and down putting pressure on the metal making it bend and the bottom two are normally stationary and are driven, meaning they push the metal through creating a constant curve. They are used to make curved metal handrails, roll up pipe work etc etc. the...

I'm looking to make a set of pyramid rolls For home out of scrap. I have three rollers. My question is if I only drive the top roller , will it still work? Normaly the top roller goes up and down, and the bottom two drive.

The noise is a bit sickening, I wonder if it makes the same noise going through your limbs?

I think you get companies like that all over the world- some places I've bought stuff and they remember me when i go back, and are happy to get stuff in if they don't have it. other places i just won't deal with!

Re: So we have the "show your vintage wrench" thread. Lets start a vintage ratchet th S&O Mebody corporation? I found some like that a while ago, they where ex ww2, mass produced on the cheap and chucked into a box, I even had one the that Some one had made for themselves on a lathe, it was...

Perhaps you don't know how to set your welder up to make a good weld? I'm a apprentice boilermaker and I had to relearn everything when I started my trade, start with the basics mate.

Now that's funny!

^ i did consider it mate, but the idea got too hard when i worked out how much it will weigh when full. Also i have no need for the truck in any other way. My dad purchased the truck at a farm clearing sale 50km's away when i was in my early twenties. he paid around $200- for a running truck...

Cheers for the ideas everyone, i found some perf mesh laying around at work, so i plan to make a mesh bucket for pessure washing and also a sort of hamster wheel, so as i can have it full of bolts rotating in some diesel or something- probably spend some time making it up, will post pics, cheers...