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Blacksmith and Metal Working Forum => Blacksmith and Metalworking Forum => Topic started by: jwitt on June 04, 2011, 05:22:59 PM

Title: Swayne Robinson Metal-Former
Post by: jwitt on June 04, 2011, 05:22:59 PM
Here is an advertisment for it from 1955
http://books.google.com/books?id=390DAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA316&lpg=RA1-PA316&dq=metal-former+swayne&source=bl&ots=VSQUr_ydrz&sig=-r32rRbjCEm4KQlEu_gkMdug8fg&hl=en&ei=zqvqTcPvBNPegQezwcnXCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

I picked this one up at a Flea Market a few years ago -

(http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss253/thosewitts/100_0430.jpg)
(http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss253/thosewitts/100_0429.jpg)
(http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss253/thosewitts/100_0433.jpg)

Jim
Title: Re: Swayne Robinson Metal-Former
Post by: 64longstep/Brian on June 04, 2011, 05:30:41 PM
Nice!! I wouldn’t mind having one…
Title: Re: Swayne Robinson Metal-Former
Post by: Aunt Phil on June 04, 2011, 10:49:57 PM
I flippin love it!

With the thousands of posts on welding and metal fab sites on how to make a ring roller nobody has yet come up with this simple adaptation of a bench vise.

Oh wait, this comes from the period before thinking was antiamerican.
Title: Re: Swayne Robinson Metal-Former
Post by: Papaw on June 04, 2011, 10:58:53 PM
How about a "Show-and Tell" on what it does, and how it works????
Title: Re: Swayne Robinson Metal-Former
Post by: scottg on June 05, 2011, 12:08:13 PM
Wow, I love this too!!
 I want one!!!

 Lots of great things popping up lately. I like it!
   yours Scott
Title: Re: Swayne Robinson Metal-Former
Post by: Fins/413 on June 05, 2011, 02:33:06 PM
That is cool and it looks useful.
Title: Re: Swayne Robinson Metal-Former
Post by: Aunt Phil on June 06, 2011, 12:23:16 AM
Quote from: Papaw on June 04, 2011, 10:58:53 PM
How about a "Show-and Tell" on what it does, and how it works????

You want to wait till I find a vise I can repurpose, or you want me to try splainin it with words?

It's a cheap and dirty ring roller for both flat and round stock, definitely not good for more than 3/8 round or 1 x 3/16 flat by my eyeball and the throw of the crank in my opinion, but pretty dang handy for a home workshop.