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How the heck does this thing werk?

I want to make a Waldon's style roof insert for my 30 sedan, but at $1800, I figured I'd buy a wheel and try to do it myself.

Metalmeet has been down for a while, and doesn't seem as though it will be back soon so I'm pounding the internet pavement looking for guidance.

here's what I got, a 28", 16 ga Baileigh English wheel
what I hope to make with it.

Originally Posted by STREETWERKZ

How the heck does this thing werk?

I want to make a Waldon's style roof insert for my 30 sedan, but at $1800, I figured I'd buy a wheel and try to do it myself.

Metalmeet has been down for a while, and doesn't seem as though it will be back soon so I'm pounding the internet pavement looking for guidance.

here's what I got, a 28", 16 ga Baileigh English wheel
what I hope to make with it.

That $1800 might seem like a good deal in a few weeks

I don't doubt it, already got a pinched finger, and busted knuckle

Hungry lil sucker ain't it!!!!!

Ron

I'm going to do mine probably next month. I have a few other things to do first. I'm going to make mine in two pieces instead of one sheet. I think it will be a little easier to manage.
Ken

Like Jesse James said, "English wheels are great for making blood squirt out from under your fingernails!"

Don

them drive grears on the bead rollers are great to make pee run down your leg to

Looks like you have a good selection of rollers. Try a few different ones to get the radius you want, have some help on the other end of the sheet, then just start practicing!!!! Then, you'll have to have a planishing hammer, too!!!!!!

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

them drive grears on the bead rollers are great to make pee run down your leg to

Sounds like the voice of experience Pat.

Don

yep i have big throat bead roller sits under my welding table . i like to take it out time to time to take nice pic of sheet metal that you work on all day then turns it to trash in seconds flat . when your old friend likes the speed up when your working a bend as you are holding and steering the panle tru the rollers . so you get bend out of shape... kicking him off driving job.. then your steer and run the panle tru your self along with that skin web part your hand that hook to you r thumb thru the drive gears . Bead roller . look it up in the dictionary 1 a tool used to turn sheet metal to trash .2 a mid evil tool used time to time to kill a old freinds . 3 a mid evli device used to get anyone to say any thing as there skin gets runned thru the gears

Government should try those instead of waterboarding

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

I'm going to do mine probably next month. I have a few other things to do first. I'm going to make mine in two pieces instead of one sheet. I think it will be a little easier to manage.
Ken

I know someone that used to werk at Walden's, and he says they are 2 pieces wheeled, welded, then hammered (darn, now I have to buy another tool), then re wheeled.

I'm not sure I can count on much more help than that from him however, so I'm approaching learning as if I'm on my own.

Don, not so much squirting as rapid drips, but I ain't done yet

agreed bead rollers are not always ones friend either

whats funny about our bead roller is my kids scrap more good material on that sucker that I'd care to admit since they were 8 or 9, never have gotten hurt. Man kids are super smart, and follow directions so well... adults however not so much all the time

Sitting here with two broken fingers that thing makes me cringe looking at it. But $1800 is a lot of cola - IMO. What would the panel cost to have done for you? (aside from completely stripping you of the 'wow I did it myself feeling')

I called Marcel, the guy who made a lot if Boyd's bodies, they want $3,000 to make and install. Without looking at it, it could be less after he sees it. I'm going over there next week just to see what it would be.
Ken

Ken, I have seen some of their werk, it's top notch, no doubt.
I'm sure for the time involved it's every bit worth it.

Gretsch, E wheel is just one of the many bazillion things to learn on my bucket list.