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You qualify for sure :p I am sure you are a much better machinest than I am.

Time changes all things and what is possible today in the average home shop blows away anything that was possible in...

Ok, are you bending a piece of flat stock ¼” high and 1/8” thick? Or are you bending a cylinder?

If it is the former, that is much easier to bend by hand, your bare hands than any other way.
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Eric!
With making the list, I forgot to congratulate you on a very nice looking shop that is well planed and layed out, you really SHOULD be very proud of it!!! :cheers:

When I worked in my...

Well, lets see, I will only list the high points as all the smaller stuff slips my mind (more and more has been slipping away the older I get!)

Dufor “C” horizontal mill that I converted to a...

http://www.cnczone.com/gallery/data/500/medium/shop1.jpg

The wife said "build your shop" and so we did! It is 20' high, 30' wide and 75' long. With 2250 sq' of space on the ground and a 400 sq'...

Not to be a smart A$$ but have you thought of using a slotting cutter?

Please indulge me for a moment to let me make my point by way of a very short story.

King of all trades.

Long long ago, there was a large argument amongst the craftsmen as to who was the king...

1/4" x ????

You could do this with bending forks, a common tool in blacksmithing. If you were only bending say 1/4" x 1/2" you could do that cold easily with forks. A fork looks like this...

In the tool making trade, we use “drill blocks” and “bombsights” to accurately pick up layout marks for holes.

A drill block is nothing more than a block of steel about ¾” or 1” thick that has...

Dear NC Cams.

It is very true that I am new to the board today; thus, I do not know the culture of this board. I am not quite sure how to understand your post to me.

I think it said that many...

You guys with thousands of pounds of pressure scare me to death. Yes hydro forming is safer (much) than using a compressible such as air!

Elisabeth Brim (the woman that makes the pillows and...

You guys need my help here for sure. :rolleyes: I am a blacksmith and have been doing it for over 15 years. Bending this thin stock is so easy to do by hand that to design, build and program a CNC...