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Here is a start of too many pictures.These are a few pictures from last weekend.Two benches for a local gym.  First picture is of the raw flat sheet before cutting for the base.  Notice how I used my two welding tables, first the lifting table then the little table as an extention Attached Images
Reply:These are the uprights and frames.  Cut and sorted for each of the two benches Attached Images
Reply:Both benches after first painting Attached Images
Reply:Three weeks ago I started to make a slip roller.  Finished it this weekend and used it on some sheet.  I used 1 1/2 tube for the frame, 1/4 inch plate for the ends.  Some scrap handrail tube for the rollers capped on the ends and then centerholed.  The tubes are 39 inches long.  So I could roll a sheet 36 inches wide.  No reason for at size, other then thats what I had.  First picture is close up of the parts. Attached Images
Reply:This V block is removed when you want to release the roller to remove the rolled sheet.  Once this V block is removed, the roller is pulled over to release the other Block.  I call it the Base Block Attached Images
Reply:After the V Block is removed, I can release the Base Block and lift it out of it's guide and romoved the rolled sheet Attached Images
Reply:After the Base block is removed from it's guide, I can lift the Roller to release the rolled sheet Attached Images
Reply:Taking out the finished roll Attached Images
Reply:Now I ain't really stupid so I rolled 2 others before I post this pictures of the third roll.  I don't know what I'm going to do with a slip roller yet or how much to roll something, but I have one now and this is how I rolled the third sheet.The start of the roll Attached Images
Reply:first pass, about half way Attached Images
Reply:A little more almost there Attached Images
Reply:Full roll with the first pass.  Now I tighten it up a little and make a return pass Attached Images
Reply:Returning second pass, a little tighter Attached Images
Reply:Third and last pass.  Turned just a little tighter but it closed up nicely Attached Images
Reply:The rolling was easy and I could have done it with one hand if I had a spinner on the wheel.  This was just a project to see if I could do it.  I learned several things.  That I could for one, how to center the hole on the ends of the rollers, and how pressure works and is applied to make the rolling do it's thing.  It was fun to make and fun to use.  Now I need to figure out what to do with it.Parts where things I had.1 1/2 tubing1/4 plateSome 1/2 boltsleftover handrail for the rollers1/2 rod for the T handles tightnersCost:  I used about 6 1/8 6013 rods.Feeling when I put that first sheet in and it rolled right up like the first pass posted did.............priceless.Sometime during that last two weeks I got an idea about using my lifting table to lift my motorcycle which is a Yamaha 175 enduro so I could work on it. or just lift it on my cool welding table because I can.  I needed to make a vise for the front wheel, so this is what I came up with.  Using the holes I made not long ago to mount my HF Bend on.  It worked!  Pictured is not my motorcycle but one of my daughters bike.  I can "vise" a 4 1/2 wheel with this vise. Attached Images
Reply:Very impressive!! How did you make the rollers out of the handrail?
Reply:Slag, I saw that bike, I thought you took a spy photo of OCC's latest creations..:-}
Reply:Jim314Thank you.  I believe I wanted to make a Roller because if I remember, you had made one and it inspired me.  The Rollers where pretty easy Jim, once I learned how to center the hole on the caps.  I'm with Sberry on this one, capping ends of tubing or pipe looks pretty neat and I'm going to do it more often, now that I learned I can do it.Anyway, once I capped the tubing, and I used some 1/8" plate and just welded it on the ends, then used my trusty grinder and made them somewhat better looking, I cheated and used a center finder that is part of a combination square.  That square is a four part tool that is a sliding square, a center finder, a protractor, and the fourth part is the blade.  I know you know what these are, but maybe someone doesn't who is reading this and this might help.  A few months ago, I didn't know what one of these where.I used my Belt Sander, to take off the paint by rolling the tube on the sander and feeding it along.  The paint on it was the same industrial stuff that is on the square tubing in the pics.  Maybe it's really just primer.  The Rollers now have a little texture from the sanding and maybe that helps with the grip but it doesn't slip really very much, and if it does and it has, I just push it a little with my hand and it goes again.  I had to do the ends a few times on one tube because the hole was out of wack, but I just cut it off and welded new ends on and tryed again.  Another lesson I learned on doing something never done before, is don't give up and just try something different.  If you see from the pics, I first had the "front" rollers one on top of the other, like I have seen from "professional" rollers.  With the slot in the end cap letting the driven roller move up and down.  It didn't work very well so I made it like it is now and it working as good as I could hope for.Scott.  I work for Occ after the camera's shut off and I build all of their bikes.  This bike is for the Miller guys that pushed Rocky out the door.  It decipts how the working man feels about that kind business practice.
Reply:nice projects Slagking. Thank you for sharing them.
Reply:SlagKing nice roller!!! but arnt u getting alittle flex out of your pipe? we ude 11/2 sch 40 pipe for hand rails and it would seem  to me that that mite be alittle thin for the job! But then i mite be wrong been wrong before!!!!!!!!!!Anyhow nice job!!!!
Reply:7018Thank You!  I havn't been doing this very long so I don't really know if the tubing I use is the same as you use.  My tubing has an outside of 1 15/16" and pretty thick walls.  I have a picture or two of the first handrail I built, as soon as I find them again, I'll post them.  I think I may have already on this forum but I don't remember.  Maybe I did on the dark side.I'll do it again though.As for flex.......I didn't get any with the stuff I rolled so far.  There really isn't much pressure there.  In fact with the sheet in the rollers, I can just grab the sheet, (with gloves on of course) and pull it right out of there.  I don't think a great deal of pressure is used the way I do it, a little bit at a time.  I would think that a lot of pressure would just bend the sheet and then it would have a crease the size of the roller and then just hang up against the other rollers.  I'll have to test that idea.  The sheet I rolled is 14 inches wide about 25 inches long, and rolled very very easy.   I didn't notice any flex in the tubes.  Maybe I would if I rolled a piece of rod or a thinner piece of flat stock and stuck it in the middle of the rollers, but I'm not going to do that.  This is for Sheet rolling, and I don't know when I'll be doing that much anyway, but I can now which for me is cool.I have seen ring rollers on here, and they are nice but I havn't needed one yet.  I have made rings with rods and flat stock by just using a vise grip and sticking the rod or flat stock on a big pipe, using the vise grip to hold the piece and then just bending it around the pipe.  Maybe I should post a few pictures of that, it might be interesting for some.  I also made a couple scrollers with pipe and bend them the same way.  I'll post them too.  But I have to get my new camera first which I'll get later this week.  Takes me about a month or more to use up a roll of film so I'm going the other way and see how it goes.Again Thanks everyone, I like to share and see what everyone else is doing.
Reply:Yes I did post that first railing on this Site forum.  If you do a search under slagking and find a post, "my first project" it's there.  That is the same tubing I used for the roller.  That railing was the very first thing I built as a project.  I did some practice before of course, but to just build something, that was the first thing.  I bent the tubing on site with a HF bender and it worked perfect didn't take very long.  I thought it would take me all week in the evening at first but I was done with the bending and setting and welding together in about 3 hours.  Thats not counting setting in the post or the end hooks on the ends of the rails, that look like sideways J's.  I built them at my "shop" before I took the rails to the site.  I set the post the weekend before and let them cure before I installed the rail.
Reply:Very nice benches, I sure hope those welds hold!  Was it cheaper for the gym to ask you to make some?  Will you be putting the pads on the seat?
Reply:SambouThanks, I made those benches to regulation for the gym.  Also I made them to adjust in the height of the uprights.  The gym is in the middle of remodeling and I didn't have to pad the seat as someone is doing all the equipment already.  The cost to the gym was a savings of 50% which doesn't include shipping either.  I didn't weight the benches but I guess they weight about 130lbs. each.I hope the welds hold to. The benches have already been used in a power lifting meet, and everyone liked them.   They are now set up at the gym and now that I have my new digital camera, I'll take a pic or twenty and post them soon.
Reply:Here are the benches as they sit at the gym. Attached ImagesAnd the other one Attached Images
Reply:Let me try to understand this concept; People go to a place called a gym and pay money to lift iron weights, and yet I have trouble getting someone to lift iron and hold it for me.My shop is Now a Gym, send somebody over who wants to lift iron.Appreciation Gains You Recognition-
Reply:Originally posted by Franz Let me try to understand this concept; People go to a place called a gym and pay money to lift iron weights, and yet I have trouble getting someone to lift iron and hold it for me.My shop is Now a Gym, send somebody over who wants to lift iron.
Reply:Franz,I don't think anybody wants to see you in spandex looking at yourself in a miror flexing with  rod in your hand.
Reply:Why is it both bodybuilders and women go to the bathroom in pairs?Cause when a body builder has acheived his maximum build he can't wipe his own a$$ any more.Appreciation Gains You Recognition-
Reply:Franz, I think the men go in pairs because they are too sissyfied to shoot their own steroids in their asses.
Reply:A couple times a week I teach aerobics at that gym, and sometimes I personal train.  Aerobics pays me $18 per class.Personal Training, (getting paid to watch someone lift the iron) gets me $50 per hour so Franz if you can match that personal training fee, I'll lift all the iron you need.
Reply:Hell Slag, I'll let ya lift iron around here, and you won't even have to pay me.If you can get some dummy to pay ya $50 an hour to watch them work, yer doin better than I am.  Any time you can profit like that from stupidity, go for it.Appreciation Gains You Recognition-
Reply:Profit from stupidity?  A very wise way of putting it, congrats, and keep up the good work.