Sheet metal rollers

Hi All
Been a while since I last posted on HMT. I have not been that busy in the workshop as I hadn’t been well again and have concentrated on other hobbies. But I had one little spark to motorise my rotary table using an arduino and that rekindled my interest for engineering. I will post this project in a few weeks time as it is not quite finished and has taken me a long time to build (due to lack of electronic and arduino code programming skills).
So I thought I would post my rollers I made 30 years ago. They were looking very tired and well used so I decided to clean them up and repaint them. They are a great little set of rollers and I even managed to roll my 3” Foden boiler barrel on them which is no mean feat as it is 1/8” copper. Yes I did have to anneal several times to help the process. These rollers now look shiny so I won’t be throwing them under the bench and allowing them to go rusty then having to drag them out and clean them up before I can use them.
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Thank you for taking the time to view
The Home Engineer

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Thanks thehomeengineer! We've added your Rollers to our Metalworking category,
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I wondered where you have been lately, sorry to hear you have been unwell. Always enjoy your posts.
Regards
Olderdan

that looks very professional, and it certainly appreciates you giving it come clean-up respect

You probably don't have any plans?

Are the roller solid or tubes?

Sorry no plans but I hope to install autoCad so I can draw them up. The rollers are solid and as per most of my projects it started with three solid pieces off cut off steel which I bought at scrap value. The company I worked for allowed you to buy scrap material For 0.05p per/kg (that was 20 years ago).

Do get well. My shop time is limited mostly due to being a working stiff. As a result I think I got 4 shop related projects done this year.

In any event thanks for the pictures! That looks like one handy tool that have!!!!!