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Sameness!

By admin April 3, 2017 Uncategorized

Yep – I can make a pile of parts that are all identical. I have made a bunch of these handles over the years. 2 bends, 6 holes, repeat. Nothing…

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Making a Bend Die

By admin March 19, 2017 Uncategorized

Here is the process I used to make a bend die for 3″ OD tube on a 4″ center line radius. I used a 4140 series alloy steel blank.

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Making a Nylon Mandrel for Aluminum

By admin March 19, 2017 Uncategorized

I needed to make a mandrel for bending 3″OD x .065 wall aluminum tube. Using nylon drastically reduces the friction during bending, so here is how I made one for…

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Setting up for more marimba resonators

By admin March 13, 2016 Uncategorized

Time to turn this large crate of tubing into 100 resonator tubes for marimbas. The tooling is so large and heavy that it takes a scissor lift to get it…

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What is it??

By admin November 2, 2015 Uncategorized

This is something I fabricated late last fall using 3/8″ plate, 1/4″ plate, and some 3″ OD x .125 wall tubing.  I will post more pics of it in action…

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Resonator Tubes for Marimbas

By admin October 28, 2015 Uncategorized

The large tooling in the previous post was made to bend resonator tubes for marimbas.  This is where my wife’s percussion world meets my fabrication world, as the marimba was…

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Long Overdue Update!

By admin October 27, 2015 Uncategorized

Ok, so it’s been a crazy year since the last update. I changed day jobs and went from a 10 mile rural commute to a 45 mile commute to downtown…

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Trying to catch up on posts!

By admin July 13, 2014 Uncategorized

Ok, so I got way behind on updating the projects list. I added several posts with galleries this evening covering the major projects I’ve had lately, and there are a…

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Mail Order Tubes

By admin July 13, 2014 Uncategorized

This job found me thanks to Google. The customer was Colorado State University, and the tubes were some kind of air sampling device for a laboratory. So, the entire project…

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High pressure welding…

By admin July 13, 2014 Uncategorized

These are some kind of manifolds for a plastic injection molding equipment. They are made of chromoly and were brought to me to be welded together. Ran a root then…

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