Custom bead rolling....lotsa pic's

here's some interior pics of my aluminum roadster pickup,...made some dies this week to simulate stitching in aluminum

 

Today I have finally seen it all. Aluminum tuck 'n roll. You Sir are ingenious.
What a neat idea.....

 

nice work. all of it.

 

well so much for getting werk done in the shop

this werk here kicks ass.........................

 

Sewn aluminum. That is a trick I have never seen before.

 

worked some more on it last night

 

can you show your dies please?

 

wheel shop

now thats slick...................................

 

Fantastic! Great work man! I have thought before of doing the "stitches", but never took the time to experiment with the dies to get the look I wanted. You nailed it! I'll have to try it now for sure.

 

wheel shop.

That is cool.

 

I'm going to spend a week on the lathe making dies for everything I can think of. I expect to ruin alot of material before I do something that is on the level of these posts.

 

WOW ....... some pretty impressive tin roll'n. I have a time running a straight line ......

PACO

 

I have a small bead roller and the metal im using is from and old door off my 1959 Dodge panel.The metal is maybe 22ga. and was wondering if you can heat the metal before rolling it or as you go,because this thing flexes sideways.#1 CHEEP ROLLER#2 Thick metal #3 Bracing cheep roller is in design stage. Im not thinking red hot but enough to help roll with out warping or i cant have it both ways,heat and warping.Thanks........YG

 

no heat will warp it, as you roll the metal it needs to be stretched, heating shrinks it will make a pretzel out of it.

If your roller wont do 22 I'd pitch it. (Sorry) 22 guage is very light material!

 

Here's a new set of door & quarter panels I finished last week for a guy in the SAS RennWagens club in the UK.

 

Thanks for the reply guys,After i reread my coments on 22ga and yours im thinking i may be wrong,i just took a quess.Iwill go out to the shop and ck with my Starrett standard ga for sheet and plate ,iron and steel #283 and see what this shows.I know the steel on the 59 is thicker than the other i have but dont know how much....22 ga is,thinking now kind of thin so,need to get the facts right,sorry bout that. Love the door panels for a VW.Iwill ck this out better and post this eve,thanks..............YG

 

can you answer a few questions please?

main uestion is how do you get the diamonds ?? what rolls do you use??

can you post a picture of your roller?

thnaks
great werk.....I hope I get half as good as that

 

Check back on pg 11 for a picture of my roller.

For the diamonds, I use a tipping die on top and a very shallow V die on the bottom. The tipping die is standard from Mittler Bros or Pro-Tools and the V lower die is custom. I think you can use a soft lower die, like a skateboard wheel, and get a similar effect (still using the tipping die on top).

 

thanks

 

Bigwig,love your set upThe door metal i was trying to roll a bead in is 18 ga. I am using a L.S.Starrett.Co #283 gauge.Iwas told this is not a sheet metal ga.Now im realy ,i need to know what im working with (ga of metal) before i can ask a correct question.My ga has stamped it it For sheet and plate iron and steel. Am i using the right ga? I went out in the shop and cut a paint thinner can up to make it flat and rolled a half round bead thru it and it went smooth with no problems. I hate the hand crank,do they have kits on making a hand crank roller into a electric powered roller or any info for the gear ratios ect ?Other post on this thread have converted there cranks to electric power from e-bay stuff.Im not worried about the motor or foot feed its the gear ratios im concerned about.Thanks again guys and you alls work is awsome,im sure i can do it in time but i need a good /correct start .................JB

 

Bigwig,love your set upThe door metal i was trying to roll a bead in is 18 ga. I am using a L.S.Starrett.Co #283 gauge.Iwas told this is not a sheet metal ga.Now im realy ,i need to know what im working with (ga of metal) before i can ask a correct question.My ga has stamped it it For sheet and plate iron and steel. Am i using the right ga? I went out in the shop and cut a paint thinner can up to make it flat and rolled a half round bead thru it and it went smooth with no problems. I hate the hand crank,do they have kits on making a hand crank roller into a electric powered roller or any info for the gear ratios ect ?Other post on this thread have converted there cranks to electric power from e-bay stuff.Im not worried about the motor or foot feed its the gear ratios im concerned about.Thanks again guys and you alls work is awsome,im sure i can do it in time but i need a good /correct start .................JB

 

damn! had seen this thread floating around but just checked it out as im going to get some door panels made for my ot truck. didnt relise you could get creative like this. now i want something on them instead of just being flat.
you guys are great artists.
Kev, kiwi ingenuity is a great thing, and yourve mastered it. thanks for starting this thread.

 

Awesome work!!!

 

Wow, talk about inspiration. If I may ask a stupid question-what kind of dies form the raised section, like the first couple pics on the thread, or that V8 door panel?

 

That's done with step rolls. It doesn't take much of a step either. On the aluminum stuff, I generally step something around .040 or .050 in .032 material, so just slightly over 1 material thickness. The less you step it, the less it warps, especially when doing the complex designs.

If you don't have step rolls, get something like an .090 or 1/8" set of steps, but you don't have to run them at full depth. That allows you to run two lines close together without squashing the first line.

 

Cool, thanks big wig!

 

unreal only on the hamb

 

Can you provide more detail on the lower die? I have been using the tipping die from my hem set and a lower die from a bead set but am not happy with the effect.

In addition, attached are some pics of some panels I made for a Jr Dragster.

 

Amazing work.

 

Heck I am not going to try and bead roll now