Thread: Simplest ring roller for flat, round, or square tubing

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Today I was looking on an amateur machinists website/forum, and seen what I believe to be the simplest device I have ever seen for rolling a radius into flatbar, and round or square tubing. This is so neat, and the only limit to what you roll is your imagination. As seen in the picture, two rollers are attached to one jaw of a vice, and a single roller with crank arm are attached to the other jaw of the vice. You open the vice, put whatever you need to roll between the rollers, close the vice untill some pressure is felt, then turn the crank and run the peice through, back and forth, untill there is no more resistance, then tighten up the vice and repeat. I suppose that in theory, you could roll a complete circle if you wanted to, similar to the device that Eastwood makes. Yes, you would have to have a lathe to make the rollers, but this is so simple and cheap that I wanted to post it for all to see.---The vice shown is unlike any vice I have ever seen either---looks more like a hand powered bending brake for sharp corners in flat stock----I suppose with an old vice and some ingenuity, you could convert it the same way.---Brian

Jeez, you wouldn't believe the questions I'm getting asked about this over on the HAMB!!!

Originally Posted by DennyW

Are they asking you if you have these in stock ?? It's kind of dead around here, huh....

ps: I may do something like that very soon. Got to hunt up the rollers though. Very handy to have, especially portable like that.

No---They're asking me how it works They are saying that in the picture the vice is closed as far as it can go already, and there is still a gap between the rollers, so how could it possibly roll a ring into metal.

Denny---This site has been deader than an old carp ever since Don finished his roadster build. I don't know if all the young builders have been scared off by us old farts, or if everybody got sick of the constant screw-ups when the site was down so much and just left, or what. Maybe its just the "end of winter syndrome", but yes, it certainly is dead around here.---Next time you decide to leave the site call me first---maybe we'll go together!!!

It does seem a little slow these days. Perhaps the weather is getting better so people can get out and work or drive.....

And that is a neat idea for a roller

I feel for ya, it's been in the mid 70's here the last couple weeks.