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    I am building a boiler for a 3" scale foden and have made the plates to form all the 1/8" thick copper. I have also posted on Homemadetools.net a tube strightening tool to un-coil 3/8" 20 gauge copper tube for the 63 x 9" long fire tubes. Please view link below for photos of formers and plates.
    The boiler is well under construction so hope to start silver soldering very soon.
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    You do some really nice work! I really like the Sweetpea locomotive, both un-painted and painted.
    I was particularly interested in the forming work you've done.
    You had some interesting clamps to hold down some pieces on your vertical mill, did you make those or buy them? I liked how much reach they had for holddowns.
    I need to keep looking through the rest of your website.
    Thanks for posting,
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    Hi Kent
    Thank for the kind words
    I made the clamps and now have about 10 of them if not more. I made my first one when I did my apprenticeship project some 34 years ago. The are very quick and useful to use, so decided to make a batch of them for the workshop. I will do another post on homemadetools.net for the clamps, as you are not the first person to ask about them.
    Thank you again for viewing my posts
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    Hi Kent
    link to home made clamps
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    Thanks thehomeengineer! We've added your Forming Tools to our Metalworking category,
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