Swayne Robinson Metal-Former

[jwitt]

Here is an advertisment for it from 1955
http://books.google.com/books?id=390DAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA316&lpg=RA1-PA316&dq=metal-former+swayne&source=bl&ots=VSQUr_ydrz&sig=-r32rRbjCEm4KQlEu_gkMdug8fg&hl=en&ei=zqvqTcPvBNPegQezwcnXCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

I picked this one up at a Flea Market a few years ago -





Jim

[64longstep/Brian]

Nice!! I wouldn't mind having one...

[Aunt Phil]

I flippin love it!

With the thousands of posts on welding and metal fab sites on how to make a ring roller nobody has yet come up with this simple adaptation of a bench vise.

Oh wait, this comes from the period before thinking was antiamerican.

[Papaw]

How about a "Show-and Tell" on what it does, and how it works????

[scottg]

Wow, I love this too!!
I want one!!!

Lots of great things popping up lately. I like it!
   yours Scott

[Fins/413]

That is cool and it looks useful.

[Aunt Phil]

How about a "Show-and Tell" on what it does, and how it works????

You want to wait till I find a vise I can repurpose, or you want me to try splainin it with words?

It's a cheap and dirty ring roller for both flat and round stock, definitely not good for more than 3/8 round or 1 x 3/16 flat by my eyeball and the throw of the crank in my opinion, but pretty dang handy for a home workshop.