TraditionalTool
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I've exchanged a few messages with one of the members here and we think we can design our own band roller, since to the Cook's Band Roller.
I wasn't sure if someone with the Cook's Band Roller would mind taking some closeup pics for us to study and discuss???
I know several XLNT machinists in my area, and I have my own Nichols Horizontal Mill, along with an old South Bend 9A metal lathe, so think I can fabricate something up.
I can't imagine these working too much different than a metal roller, which I have used to curve sections of sheet metal in the past, or even a tire machine for you old hats, which is used to make the metal tire that wraps around wagon wheels. One difference I would see between the Cook's Band Roller and a metal roller is that you would need to control the depth in which the band can be inserted into the rollers, so that one doesn't roll the teeth.
I know a blacksmith that has a metal roller which I have used in the past, and I will try to get over there so I can look at how the wheels work to account for size of material and curvature which it applies to the steel as it is rolled through. This image from the Cooks site doesn't show the rolling mechanism at all...BTW, rolling bandsaw blades is not something Cook's came up with, it has been used on larger/wider bandsaw blades for some time, Cook's only borrowed the idea and adapted it to smaller bandsaw blades, IMO, so if you have another type of band roller, feel free to post pics of it!
I wasn't sure if someone with the Cook's Band Roller would mind taking some closeup pics for us to study and discuss???
I know several XLNT machinists in my area, and I have my own Nichols Horizontal Mill, along with an old South Bend 9A metal lathe, so think I can fabricate something up.
I can't imagine these working too much different than a metal roller, which I have used to curve sections of sheet metal in the past, or even a tire machine for you old hats, which is used to make the metal tire that wraps around wagon wheels. One difference I would see between the Cook's Band Roller and a metal roller is that you would need to control the depth in which the band can be inserted into the rollers, so that one doesn't roll the teeth.
I know a blacksmith that has a metal roller which I have used in the past, and I will try to get over there so I can look at how the wheels work to account for size of material and curvature which it applies to the steel as it is rolled through. This image from the Cooks site doesn't show the rolling mechanism at all...BTW, rolling bandsaw blades is not something Cook's came up with, it has been used on larger/wider bandsaw blades for some time, Cook's only borrowed the idea and adapted it to smaller bandsaw blades, IMO, so if you have another type of band roller, feel free to post pics of it!