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I Really Wanna See Those (Slow Motion) Fingers Stop a Saw Blade

Posted on 10, Jun

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 [...]

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 [...]

Press 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, [...]

Antique 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 [...]

Antique Sheet Metal Tools?

Posted on 22, Oct

Three or so weeks ago I was contacted by a lady who’d inherited her grandfather’s entire set of sheet metal tools and has had them in her garage since he passed away 30 years ago. She’s not only wondering what’s what, but would also like to determine how much, if anything, they’re worth. She could [...]

RoboGames: Sponsor a Robot.

Posted on 24, Aug

I got an email yesterday from a young upstart after a spot of sponsorship for himself and his mates to help them build a middleweight combat robot for RoboGames. I presume he’s not meaning one of these fellas. As his email goes: Hello, my name is Trent Brown. I’m a 15 year old Homeschool student. [...]

Sculpture Classes Anyone?

Posted on 3, Jul

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Here’s an email I received asking for a bit of help and have been given permission to replicate it on here to see if anybody has any idea. I have always been interested in metal sculpture and I am having a really tough time finding any education in this area. I would appreciate any advice [...]