Thread: Bead rollers

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We have a Pro Tools electric bead roller and it works great and is one of those tools that collects dust 364 days a year, but you wonder how you ever lived without it that other day a year when you use it. But for doing something like floorboards or firewall the HF one has been reported on other forums to work very well, but does need some bracing, as the guys mentioned.

One tip that might help when you do roll beads, Dan came up with a way to roll perfectly straight beads, and we are normally not all that good with getting straight lines. He clamped two pieces of long flat stock across the panel being rolled, and spaced them exactly one inch apart, the width of our dies. That way the die has to roll right down that path, making a very straight bead.

We also got the exact same height on each bead by counting how many turns we made on the handle that squeezes the dies together. We brought the die down until it just touched the work, and then turned the handle the exact same number of turns for each bead.

Hope this helps someone else out.

Don

I HATE THE WAY THIS NEW FORMAT POSTS PICTURES OUT OF SEQUENCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why does that happen??