Hi Gordon.
Allan is sitting here wanting to know the price of the little pommie loco!
a Flying Scotman in reality.
availability?
Any prices to go on yet?
or ring Allan late Friday or over weekend
TIA.
Tony
Tony Cotton
Adelaide Loco Works
South Australia
Ph/ intl -61-8-83416511
AH 82484430
Argyle has had a chinese origin combination slip roll/shear and brake for 7
years now .used every day..tend to be poorly set up when you buy it but
worth its weight in gold.
we grind the shear blades yearly and dont let Father in law crop hardened
screws to length on it! the regrind cost $80
Gordon, thanks very much for the description of setting up the shear! I'll
give it a go.
regards,
-vance-
Vance Bass
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Small-scale live steam resources: http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass
Friends,
Machinist Workshop magazine for June-July 2002 has an article about
building a sheet metal bending machine from common materials. The article
claims the machine can bend up to 1/4 thick steel.
Casey Sterbenz
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At 09:14 PM 5/27/02 -0400, you wrote:
building a sheet metal bending machine from common materials. The article
claims the machine can bend up to 1/4 thick steel.
Casey Sterbenz
The question of course will be how wide? There is a need for metal
brake counterpart to the Thomas (or