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I needed a way to forge nearly perfect circles rapidly of a fixed diameter and I was tooling up for a run of projects needing horseshoes and barstock into small diameter cirlces...so I went to a local small order metals shop and purchased a bunch of drops of varying thicknesses and welded them together to make a mandrel/anvil that mounts into either a vice or hardy hole in my anvil.
wow thats the craziest looking tool that fits on an anvil I have ever seen! It looks like it would be incredibly useful too! what it the final product will you be making with it?
Thanks DocChuck! I've added your Cylindrical Mandrel Anvil to our Anvils category, as well as to your builder page: DocChuck's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:
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Yeah, that is unusual. Would be interested to see how it's used.
Hi There, currently I'm taking #0 horseshoes and making them nearly perfect circle rings for use as drinking glass holders when welded to rod or barstock...also as candleholder bases...
May I post pics of some projects that aren't tools...but what I make using them.
Can I post videos on this site...if so, how?
Sure, you can just post a YouTube url, and it will automatically get converted into an embedded video player.
That's one handy mandrel stake. One tool to do it all.
Al
I like the idea of 5 diameters close together for what you are doing. When using this mandrel on the smallest diameters is there an excess of vibration because of their distance from the hardy hole support? RustyWrench
Absolutely! Please post those non-tool projects in the Not a Tool, but Homemade subforum. We're looking to seeing your work!Quote:
Originally Posted by DocChuck
Ken
I have the idea to build a similar anvil and have the pieces ready to weld together .... must do that soon.
I don't have a big anvil so mine will be used in a vice.
I think that a rectangular bar -say 20x50x100 - in line with the circular bars would be better for a vice.
Am i right ?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Hi Ken....Whatever you do, do not put a solid bar for a vise under all the cylinders at once or you'll never be able to merge the ends of the circular stock....the vise mount, even if it were to run down one cylindery completely...you wouldn't be able to close the ends. Without an anvil, what I have suggested for vise stability is to weld a post just like you would for a hardy...1" x 1" perhaps,....then weld in the long bar over the distance that way you can still close off as much as you can to make the circles completely close.
HOpe this helps...If not just send me a message and I would happy to walk you through it.....Let me see if I can draw something up to illustrate what I mean.....Quote:
Thanks for the reply Doc Chuck. Had not thought of the merging the ends. I am unable to open your attachment but I am guessing that I would end up with something like a horizontal ” H “ with the mandrel along the top, and an inverted “ T “ welded to the bottom of the mandrel.
Am I right ??
Ken
Not a tool? I think it is!