Sheet Metal Fabrication

The Tin Cat Repeating Mouse Trap

Posted on 19, Jan

Hot on the heels of the Soup Can Mousetrap comes the Tin Cat – The Proverbial “Better Mouse Trap”. This repeating Mouse trap can hold up to 30 mice. The heavy gauge galvanized steel construction of the Tin Cat means it is long lasting. The low profile Tin Cat goes where wind-up traps can’t fit. [...]

An idiot’s guide to getting those creamy jobs.

Posted on 21, Nov

As far as negotiating your way to Butler Sheetmetal goes, this morning was as treacherous as you could get – black ice, freezing fog and a Monday morning head-mist do not a successful combination make. And that was sufficiently evident as I started to drift sideways down one particular side road at a rather jaunty [...]

Pre-Fabricated Metal House Exhibit

Posted on 4, Nov

Sheet Metal Fabrication

Front Porch of Metal House Here’s a pre-fabricated metal house designed by Jean Prouve currently showing at the Hammer Museum in LA. Interior of Prouve’s Metal House The metal house installation includes the two weeks it takes to put the thing up and the two weeks to take it back down again and finishes on [...]

Sheet Metal Workers: UK Definition

Posted on 21, Oct

There seems to be a glaring difference between the lot of a British sheet metal worker and that of his or her American counterpart. Most notably, there’s no mention of you falling off scaffoldings and welding your hands together from this job description from learndirect. “As his mind drifted towards his Liberace tribute act, he [...]

Ain’t Got Time to Fix the (Stainless Steel) Shingles

Posted on 13, Oct

I’m not a major fan of Google’s new Blog Search as it just chucks spam blogs at you like confetti But, it’s not bad for finding quirky little blog posts relating to your specific search term. Obviously, the search term I’m referring to is sheet metal. (Just click on the sheet metal link to see [...]

Some Rusty Planter Pics

Posted on 3, Oct

Do you recall how John trounced the competition alive in the Trawden Container Competition but I was unable to show you with what? Well now I can. This is the lovely little number that actually romped home in first place – not forgetting that there were only three entrants in the first place. I never [...]

The Life Cycle Costing of Stainless Steel

Posted on 28, Sep

Here’s a fabulous little article showing you how stainless steel is a cheaper material to use in the long term than mild steel when a whole picture is taken. Or, in other words: Life Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis is a means of quantifying the choice of materials for a product or construction, with the aim [...]