pipe threader for twisting

jdm61 said:
Dang!! That has to weigh as much as some hammers!!!!!!
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Yeah, weighs half again as much as my first power hammer did, admittedly, the OG Bull design, was one of the most compact for it's power.
 
Well that's another machine to add to my list.... I have a real old iron weakness.

It is definitely true about larger industrial machines selling for less than hobby machines though, at least to a point.
Especially in things like metal lathes and shapers. I've seen 6" atlas lathes sell for more than 18" Colchester and leblonds
And bench top shapers sell for $2-3000 while ads offering to pay someone to take a big shaper aren't unheard of.

That threader looks absolutely perfect for this, and the brake lathe is a good idea as well. I could also see a beat to hell metal lathe being a potential candidate for a conversation.
 
Very cool old beast there Javan, although it seems you'll have to mod it to be able to twist anything very long?
 
JTknives said:
My research shows motor on a ridged 300 is only 1/2hp.
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It's not about the horsepower - it's the gearing.
My RPM on the Rigid is right at 28 rpm.
If you watched my video you could see that the motor kept on spinning AFTER! I took my foot off the switch. And that's with over an inch in diameter steel. It would no doubt twist any size steel we can reasonably put in it.

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Salem Straub said:
Very cool old beast there Javan, although it seems you'll have to mod it to be able to twist anything very long?
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Salem, it may be hard to tell from the photo, but the lower handwheel slides the whole carriage (which the vise rides on) away from the head, and it's currently as close to the head as it moves, but already 4-6" away from the side of the head that faces the vise. It's locked up at the moment, so I'm not sure how far away it adjusts, but I'd say it's at least 18". Worst case I'll have to mount a fixture on the back side of the head for chucking that end of the billet, I'd like to be able to work up to 22-24" long, as I'm currently making a lot of 1.5x24" long twists by hand for one of my customers that builds flashlights.
 
javand said:
I'd like to be able to work up to 22-24" long, as I'm currently making a lot of 1.5x24" long twists by hand for one of my customers that builds flashlights.
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DANG! So 95% of your work ends up as metal shavings? :eek:
 
jdm61 said:
DANG! So 95% of your work ends up as metal shavings? :eek:
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Lol yes, it's a shame. I twist them at about 1.5" at 20" or so, then forge them down a bit further into planished rounds, and then turn them down to around 1.1" or so, which the first few passes are really dramatic, since there are so many highs and lows crashing constantly, get them down to continuous metal that's scale/flaw free.

Then they get bored, turned further, and yeah, about 5% is left over, lets don't even talk about how much pure nickel is in these that gets turned to chips, anybody that's ever had to buy nickle plate, will feel my pain here. ;)
 
With all of this old and new technology, one of us lunatics is eventually going to figure out a way to twist up and weld full length damascus gun barrels without having to have a shop full of Belgian elves with sledge hammers. :D
 
kuraki said:
You need an extruder next :D Damascus DOM :cool:
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No shit. I'm twisting these bars now, and it takes forever, even with like 3' extensions on each side of my twisting wrench. I'm not a big dude. After each twist, I have to sit down outside and cool off and recover from what feels like a marathon. Takes me more heats to twist, and these are not twisted tight, than it does to weld and draw the billets (by a lot).

Never did twists much previous to this, just wasn't the type of patterns I was experimenting with. Wish I had time to get the twister going already.
 
Very cool Javan. Looking at the photo in that old ad it seems like you may be able to pop that carriage off there and rotate it 180* and get more length out of it. Just a thought.

On a side note have you ever done something like a shop tour?

-Clint
 
Augus7us said:
Very cool Javan. Looking at the photo in that old ad it seems like you may be able to pop that carriage off there and rotate it 180* and get more length out of it. Just a thought.

On a side note have you ever done something like a shop tour?

-Clint
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No not really, I posted a photo on IG of my grinders a year or two ago not long after I moved into this shop, but I was actually just thinking I should do a video. Well, after I clean up a bit lol. Usually it looks like a landfill and a nuclear bunker had drunken fight sex, and my shop is the result. =\

I am fortunate to have acquired some cool old tools over the years, being both a good scavenger, and a major tool junkie. Chris from Wilmont will be stopping by next week, maybe we'll do a video while he's here.


As far as rotating the carriage, I have no idea, and hand't thought about it, but I'll look into it definitely, thanks for the idea!
 
Please do I would love to see more of your equipment and maybe get some ideas on how to lay out my new shop!

-Clint
 
That old ad talks way too much about nipples and gangs of sweaty men. :confused:
 
Dang it you guys! Now there's ANOTHER thing I just have to get into my shop. And I only just made my first bar of Damascus last month at G L Drew's shop.
 
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