Recent content by shells2bells

You're welcome. Brass and SS make a great bearing plus I had both laying around in the shop.

Hi leoflc, Wish I had some pictures to send you but I don't. I did a quick drawing. Hope it helps. Shell

I was stuck for years thinking big and small using my own internal reference on size and it always lead to bad designs or thinking something couldn't be done. .002 is just over 50um and when I built machines that would have to position to .1um over 300mm 2 thousands of an inch is very large...

I first tried two beveled rollers but that was a disaster to roll through. The heat deformation was an issue when rolled too slow through the rollers and too fast you didn't get the two to melt together, but at the right speed it worked. I figured it out not even knowing about seam welders. I...

This worked for me when I needed to weld two pieces of thin SS together. I bought a spot welder on ebay and then instead of the two points coming together to "spot weld". I made two rollers of brass to attach to the ends.. One was beveled to a narrow wedge and the other was flat. I...