Lotsa talk about making sheet metal brakes and the like, but...I'm looking to make an 8' sheet metal slip roller. Has anybody done it?
Didn't make it; but had a home made 10' roller where I used to work. Came from dump body company we bought out. We rolled up 8 gauge with it a couple times. If I remember right it had 6" rollers with 2-1/2" or 3" shafts running in steel blocks with brass bushings. It had #80 chain sprockets linking the rollers. We turned it with a 3/4" drive ratchet and pipe.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=211660 http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=637760
I built a quick and easy one using three leftover Harley fork tubes,bushings and a set of bicycle sprockets and chain. A customer came in and bought it not long after I built it. I need to get busy and do another one. Motorcycle parts are cheap sources for the tubing for tools like these. My bead roller gears are from a blown out motorcycle tranny.
Thanks for the tips. I'll have to do a new inventory from a different view of my scrap pile before it goes to the crusher. Ed