There’s enough frightening stuff goes on in your average sheet metal shop – none more so than Jasper arriving on a Monday morning having spent the weekend watching Braveheart on a loop coddling a bottle of Lidl’s finest cooking sherry. Talk about pudgy round the gills and waxing not too lyrical. He’s simply a sequence [...]
Continue readingI Really Wanna See Those (Slow Motion) Fingers Stop a Saw Blade
Posted on 10, Jun
Firemen Use Angle Grinder to Free Man’s Pipe from Steel Pipe
Posted on 22, Jan
We all know that first week back after Christmas and New Year can be a lonely and desperate time. Just ask Jasper. Many’s the time he can be seen skulking in the steel racks for hours on end when it’s quiet with nary a peep out of him. I sincerely hope he’s not up to [...]
Continue readingPress Brake Wanted this 4th of July Weekend
Posted on 4, Jul
Supersized press brake Oh what a joy it is to be given the 4th of July off as a holiday. But, like this fella, I’d much rather be working than have to traipse three hours up the highway to attend some thoroughly cheesy family function, which this year involves some really spurious talent show. Oh, [...]
Continue readingPress Brake Ron
Posted on 13, Dec
Here’s a message left by a certain fella called Ron looking for help with the following: Nice information! In the past I have built my own hydraulic press brake 60 Ton X 4 ft wide. I utilized dual ram’s salvaged from a catipiller, I utilized hydraulic dual selonoid valves to allow balance and stop control, [...]
Continue readingAntique Sheetmetal Fabrication Books?
Posted on 30, Oct
Following on from the same lady who gave us the antique sheet metal tools, we also have the list of sheetmetal fabrication books dating from as early as 1907. Here’s the listing of the books as it was provided to me in the email: Antique books 1. sheet metal a) Sheet Metal Work; Neubecker; approx [...]
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The Tinbasher is the award-winning company blog of Butler Sheetmetal Ltd UK, a small fabrication shop in the darkest recesses of North West England.
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