That was fantastic! I love how you kept working through to a successful result. What you where doing is called, "teaching people how to think!"
Put it up. I am not even voting for my own thread because another one went up today about a thing I've wanted to try. ...and he said his was not too good. Well, it was to me.
There are soooo many inventive people on this site! If they all decide to start their own country the rest of the world is in trouble!!!
LMAO... Wife just asked why I was laughing. She doesn't get it. Sent from my DROID device using the TJJ mobile app
wow, you have a lot of patience! Awesome tech! Don't you just love building tools?! I wish there were more hours in the week, I have a few I would like to make but have no time!
No, I actually hate making tools that are good for only one job, then become forgotten on a shelf, but I finally realize that by slaving to make a tool, you can now make the part in just minutes. Here is a tool I just made for putting odd oval bumps on some 1921 Republic truck running boards I had to make. There are 97 bumps per board..so making a tool that can be aligned very quickly, paid off in labor saved. The male die is an old big dome head carriage bolt that I ground to an oval shape. The female die only needs to be an "outline" of the oval shape. I could have used a short piece of flattened pipe, but did not have the right size, so I found a big flat nut that I smashed two sides inwards to make an oval. Now find a way to align the 2 dies before hitting with a big hammer; I made a tool, looking like tongs, from old flat steel. There is no hinge, it is welded, and that ends up with some spring tension to keep the dies together and aligned to each other perfectly. (first 2 pics I have a block of wood spreading the tongs, so you can see the die shapes) I made grid lines on the running boards with a pencil, and aligned the two points of the nut on one grid line, and a saw mark at the front of the nut, to align the die to the 90 degree grid line. Once you get the hang of it, it goes quickly to be able to align the dies then hit with the hammer.
I'm going to hook in some HAMB hydroforming history. Long ago, I got to pick the tech post of the week...that was quite a ride, and it ended in the following posts. Note my post pointing out that we uncovered two forms of this strange practice, one possibly easier than the other... https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/tools-metalshaping-with-water.77692/ https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/tech-week-winner.78517/#post-949914
I missed this completely. I'm really impressed and will save the oval dimple die idea for a future project. Thanks for the work of doing it and figuring it out for the rest of us and also taking the time to post it.
It is sold as annealed.. Check this link out. Then also look on that same page for "Ideas",,, then click on each idea shown for more info on ideas. This is the place I ordered from back then: https://basiccopper.com/copper-sheet--rolls.html I'd bet others here would like to do a simple design hubcap for 1932-1935 Ford wirewheels. It should go better as far as pressure leaks, as the diameter is smaller. Just an inch difference smaller OD would allow much more crispness to the designs. (because there would be a lot lesser total"spreading" force on the smaller OD of the die) .
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