[AT] Bending a wheel? [OT]

[Indiana Robinson]

On 18 May 2005 at 7:48, John Wilkens wrote:

> I was refering to a common shop hydraulic press....like you'd use for 
> pressing bearings, straightening shafts and a hundred other handy 
> operations.  Mine is only 24" wide at the mouth so not sure how muich help 
> it would be for a 5' wheel.  For you it might serve the purpose of a large 
> vise while you apply heat  hammer.  I like the way Francis put it....just 
> apply some old blacksmith techniques, elbow grease and persistence.   And 
> good luck!   John




	That kind of blacksmithing is a lot like carving a stone elephant. You just get a 
hammer, a stone chisel and a very large block of stone. Then you just chisel away 
everything that doesn't look like an elephant...   ;-)
	You already know what the wheel is supposed to look like. Just keep heating and bending 
until it looks that way...

-- 
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...

Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100 
years 
before the revolution.


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net