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Here is a link to plans to the best bender you could ever use...Bob Bender Similar to the Hossfeld #2

I needed a new wedding band so why buy it when you can make your own. Don't know what the wife will think but heck it was only a half hour job and a chunk of ss pipe and a nice 400 grit finish thats easy to touch up...Bob

Lots of internet info out there. What kind of metal lathe did you get? Here are lots of how to do simple things on my yahoo group if you are interested. I would be glad to drive down to SC and show you, its a lot warmer than Ohio, well maybe not tonight its 60 here...Bob southbend10k : SouthBendLathe10k and lathe projects.

Good job....Bob

I get thru Ripley twice a year when i go on vacation right down I-77S. That is usually where i stop and sleep on my way home from Myrtle Beach. Seems like i can never make it any farther north in one day. I will have to look you up. I have some desi the Deer pics i am working on a Wikipedia right now for him...Bob

Hi guys. Some of you have seen some of my lathe projects or posts but i have never formally introduced myself here. I am from Salem Ohio birthplace of the Silver and Deming drill you all know those fat drills with the turned down straight shanks. I am 49 years old and may sound like a BS'er to some when i say i have done it all but i really have. My dad was an ARCA racecar driver so for the first years of my life it was spent in a tow vehicle in many states or in the pits at the races. He also owned a large welding shop where i learned and watched how to do things and how to weld when very young. He also had a "new" alum welding mig that in 1964 was a fairly new process for any shop to have and i still have his welder. I went to work for him in 1976 while still in high school because i was in Voc Machine Trades and tested out my senior year which meant you are pretty smart now go get a job and prove it. It also meant a tool and die apprenticeship in a local shop which i turned down.. I worked for him for 10 years doing repair work on all the local farmers equipment as well as building 500 trailers to sell to wood burners in the winter time. We also sold chainsaws and log splitters so i got to know them pretty well. Then at night it was build stuff for my buddies like 4x4 cars, trucks, street rods and enough to keep me busy. Then it was time to move on so i bought a union card into the Sheet Metal Workers Union which covered NE Oh and all of VWa. At that time i had a handicapped kid that needed more than i made so i got another job working 2nd shift in a tool and die shop. So for 8 years i worked like a beaver with no vacations or days off. Makes you old quick. But i learned alot in the 2 trades. Then i was offered a job as a Millwright in a big factory across town where i did machine repair and lots of welding. It was great working on 100 year old machines and wondering how they did alot of the work building them. I also was an inventor there making some hard projects simple Some are still used saving them millions of dollars. Then it was time to move on now to the big oil refinery where i am now as an inside control room operator. I physically don't do any repair work or welding there but i have a chance all the time to go to the machinist group of the pipe fitters but i don't like the hours. I also moonlighted as a wedding photog but the hours conflicted with my schedule too much so i quit doing weddings. Now i have my own welding shop where in my spare time i invent and repair stuff for some local shops as well as sell and mfg my own line of products. I was doing lots of ornamential iron work but ran out of time so i just do it now for friends and family. I also run my 4 metal lathes 20 or so hours a week making cool usefull projects. I designed and sell my line of ceiling mounted O Scale train bridges to run Lionel sized trains around a room. Tracks OverHesds I also teach welding and lathe operation to anyone that stops in for free, just give me a call. So thats pretty much it in a nut shell. I have about a thousand pics of my projects i am going to put in the blueprints section soon. Oh and i helped raise a 46 point 296 7/8 B&C sized buck for all you hunters out there...Bob

I also use my mig 99% of the time from sheetmetal to heavy plate. I have welded steel, alum, brass, stainless steel, with alot of different wires i have in stock. I keep steel 070-S6 in 3 different diameters as well as silicon brass for sheetmetal. Flux core that uses gas for heavy plate works great. I also have gasless flux core for outside welding, but i don't like it...Bob

Chuck, everyone, I have about a thousand pics of setups i have done. Prob is they are scattered all over the net in photo albums i have. I have talked to Glenn about making blueprints and i will start some with my zillion projects from welding/ ornamental iron/ maching and some others. I used my boring head today making a clearance cut on my tool post to clear the live center that always seems to hit at the wrong time...Bob Pic #1 ALWAYS Watch the back side away from the cut, you don't want to hit anything. Turn it by hand to check for clearance. Pic #2 Cutting in backgear with the spindle running slow. Pic #3 Clearance cut done, perfect fit. Pic #4 Looks like a beaver chewed it out but it will work. Pic #5 Wrench and spindle nose protector pushing the boring head out of the taper. The taperered arbor locks itself pretty good into the tapered spindle ID.

Thanks for the ideas Chuck. I had installed a few years back a bigger cross slide with tee slots so i could do other jobs that i could clamp on the cross slide. Like this 45 degree milling of a slot i could not do any other way because i don't have a mill. This is the arm for my home made taper attachment being milled...Bob

I made mine in 1990 from a piece of CRS 2" W x 4 1/2" L and 1 1/2" H. Screw is just a fine thread bolt with another bolt for a handle. I made it at work while running a big lathe and the milling machine was always just sitting there so i put it to a good use. The South Bend Lathe 6" rule was my great grandads and he worked at the Studebaker factory in SB Ind...Bob

If you are going to build a bender build this one instead. Bender Similar to the Hossfeld #2 You can do so much more with it than the DiAcro ever did. Plus there is far less machining involved and less steel plates...Bob Di-Acro Manual and Power Operated Machines For Precision Metal Forming LINK

Here is a simple project i finally finished. A boring head for my SB lathe in the correct .602 taper for the spindle. Don't know if i will use it but it was fun to make. And it was FREE, the boring head was a gift i couldn't use...Bob 1st pic. Turning .602 South Bend Lathe taper. 2nd pic. Arbors made, i made extra since i was setup. 3rd pic. Threaded 1 1/2-18 for boring head. 4th pic. Boring head installed. 5th pic. Parts to use an arbor. Shaft/bushing/nut holds it inside the spindle. southbend10k : SouthBendLathe10k and lathe projects. for more pics.

My grampa was one of the founders of Tee Nee Boat Trailers and i hung around with him at the shop. My dad owned a welding company that was in the backyard so i was there alot. By the time i was in high school i was a great stick welder and i helped teach the other kids. I took vocational Machine Trades and my senior year i tested out so i had to go get a job. I went to my dads trailer shop and started building trailer axles he made for another trailer company and equipment trailers. Then we started building woodburners when the energy crunch hit in the late 1970's. By then we had 6 mig welder machines to use and they were pretty rare in a home shop in 1977. I never formally had any training but i had some good teachers. The next 20 years i worked as a welder by day and a machinist by night. I worked 2 shifts for about 10 years. I now own a welding company and will gladly teach/show/let use any resource i have to help someone out. So just ask if you need anything...Bob

That is really neat and simple. Its one of them why didn't i think of that. Thanks for sharing...Bob

It picks up crud and some rust off the wire. Wire is dirty even new out of the box. I wind my own 4" spools from new bigger spools and it is real dirty in the middle of the roll and down to empty...Bob

Stainless prob would be better, but they break and just wear out from the dirt. I never heard of it until a few weeks ago when he bought his rig

It screws onto a long wand with a trigger and a pump pushes fertilizer into the soil under trees giving them added nutrients. Sounds like a way to make more money. Tree fertilizing who would have thought...Bob

For my neighbor and his tree company. I started with some 4140 steel and turned them to size. Then i drilled the spray holes while still mounted in my lathe with my cross slide hole driller then turned the taper with my home made taper attachment then finally the sharp pont with a disc sander. Don't need to be pretty since they just go in the dirt...Bob 1st pic, cross slide hole driller on another project, and tapping some set screw holes. 2nd pic, cutting the long taper. 3rd pic, spray point done.

I always am turning a chunk of pipe or something with a big hole in it and needed a bull nose center. I don't like to buy anything i can make so i made one with 2 bearings from the farm store and a couple chunks of steel. First i turned an arbor with a #2MT on it then turned it to fit the bearing bore. Then i turned the nose taper then bored the hole for the bearing OD. Works great on a chunk of rusty 2" black pipe. And it was only 20 bucks and some time...Bob

The scroller itself is a Shop Outfitters Metal Bending Tools Tube and Pipe Bending unit. The design of the base and gearbox setup is mine. I will get you some pics Monday...Bob

I lost my ring finger when i was 17. My class ring got hooked on a VW bumper while i was bumper skiing thru the local drive in resturant. Got it sewed back on and its ok now just a few sizes bigger. I don't like welding with mine on because it seems to collect hot splatter, you really shouldn't wear any jewerly while working...Bob

Since we are bending here is my Scroller and it is motorized with a 60:1 gearbox and a 3/4 hp motor 1,000+ inch pounds of torque. I can scroll 1,000 pcs of 3/16"x1" metal in a day with no effort or strain on my body like bending them by hand...Bob

Copy away. And yes i bend everything cold in my twister and my HF bar bender...Bob

Here is my Mr Twister i made years ago when i was doing the ornament work. It will do 1/2" sq as well as 3/16"x1" flat. It is mounted on my second floor so i can do really long parts. I made the split die to do twists that have flat spaces in between the twists. You can with some creativity use a 1/2" drive socket for the dies...Bob

Di Acro used to be on my way to work here in Canton Ohio until about a year and a half ago when it was sold. I stopped in a few dozen times and had some looks. The company that had the Di Acro line did my powdercoating for my wrought iron projects...Bob