Favourite and unusual tools

[Dennis]

Fantastic drawbench, Dennis - I'll be keeping a lookout from now on for a suitable winch...

There you are, it was half that price when I bought it though, from a boat chandler in Covent Garden London. If you ever go this route please PM me for further information.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dutton-Lains.../dp/B001AJ7NGO

[Patstone]

Just showing my ignorance now, what would you do with a tool like that.

[ajda]

It's for drawing wire (or sometimes tubing) down to smaller diameters - you can see the drawplate held in the vice in Dennis' photo. You can get drawplates with different profiles too - round, square, oval, half-round, etc. I don't have a drawbench, so do it by hand with a drawplate and brute force, but the drawbench allows you to do larger stuff with greater ease... Commercial ones look like this - http://www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery...rcode-999-0342 - and are expensive.
Alan

[Dennis]

Yes, if you look at my album (link below) you will see that most of my work is made from wire. So a starting point for any project is to draw down the wire for it.

As for tubing, standard sizes are often not ideal, so I draw down from a bigger size to exactly what I need.

This is also helpful in that you need not carry too large a variety of stock, but you do need a lot of plates. Dennis.

[CJ57]

It's for drawing wire (or sometimes tubing) down to smaller diameters - you can see the drawplate held in the vice in Dennis' photo. You can get drawplates with different profiles too - round, square, oval, half-round, etc. I don't have a drawbench, so do it by hand with a drawplate and brute force, but the drawbench allows you to do larger stuff with greater ease... Commercial ones look like this - http://www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery...rcode-999-0342 - and are expensive.
Alan

Oh that takes me back to my College days Alan. I made a lot of tubing, that's one thing I know how to do but will probably never do again!

[ajda]

There you are, it was half that price when I bought it though, from a boat chandler in Covent Garden London. If you ever go this route please PM me for further information.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dutton-Lains.../dp/B001AJ7NGO

PMing you now Dennis...
Alan

[Tabby66]

I've coveted your draw bench for many years now Dennis!!
I must get round to doing something about it!!

[Patstone]

Presumably it has to be hot first, or is it moulten and poured into a mould.

[CJ57]

You pull your annealed wire or tubing through the holes in the steel plate until you draw it down to the size you want.

These are the various draw plates Pat http://www.cooksongold.com/category_...omSuggest=true

[Patstone]

Something else I have learned from you guys.