French Wheel Sheet Metal

19th century antique syracuse wheelbarrow garden pumpkin flower wagon full size.

French wheel sheet metal.

This tool works by using a top rolling wheel and a bottom anvil wheel. On this page you will find a selection of the finest quality tools available for metalshaping such as english wheels planishing hammers power hammers shrinker stretchers hand tools and shaping stations these tools are excellent for creating custom sheet metal parts used in auto and aircraft. Sheet metal traduction anglais français. Both wheels can be micro adjusted so the tool fits your preferences.

Hand made heart pine wheelbarrow with metal wheel and 4 wheel cart. Antique steel wheel wheelbarrow general 100. Its used for making aircraft skins car body parts suits of armor and other applications where a smooth surface on the sheet is desired something extremely difficult to achieve with a hammer. Van sant enterprises specializes in high performance metal fabrication tools and equipment.

When you run sheet metal or 16 gauge steel between the two it stretches or shrinks the metal based on how you turn it letting you form any shape you desire. Antique 1700 s french wheelbarrow garden cart. The top wheel is called the rolling wheel while the bottom wheel is known as the anvil wheel. On an average the size of the rolling wheel has a width of 8 centimeter 3 1 in 3 and the anvil wheel has a diameter of 25cm 10.

An english wheel is a classic hand powered shop tool for making two dimensional curves in sheet metal. By walking metal back and forth between them you stretch it producing a simple curve. Then move the metal panel through the wheel in a gentle smooth back and forth motion as you guide the panel laterally. Change angle and put the same piece back in the wheel you can make a compound curve.