How to Build a Slip Roll Machine

Slip rolls or plate rolls are designed to form sheet metal into curved panels or cylinders. This book teaches you how to build your own slip roll machine. The machine detailed in this manual is simple and inexpensive to build. Not only does it look professional it will do a professional job as well. Straight and tapered cylinders from 22 gauge mild steel can easily be formed as well as 20 gauge in shorter widths. Its commercial counterpart costs hundreds more, and you have the satisfaction of building it yourself! Contents: Introduction, material list, the slip roll bed, the left and right end frame housing, front, bottom and rear rolls, mounting the roll assembly to the bed, the sprocket drive, the crank, operating forming machines. The book has large diagrams.