Sheet Rolling
Our hand brake, sheet roller, English wheel, power hammer, and shrinking stretching machine enable us to form nearly any complex form from sheet metal.
Our hand brake, sheet roller, English wheel, power hammer, and shrinking stretching machine enable us to form nearly any complex form from sheet metal.
The English wheel, in Britain also known as a Wheeling machine, is a metalworking tool that enables a craftsman to form compound (double curvature) curves from flat sheets of metal such as aluminum or steel. The process of using an English wheel is known as Wheeling. Panels produced this way are expensive, due to the highly skilled and labor intensive production method, but it has the key advantage that it can flexibly produce different panels using the same machine. It is a forming machine that works by surface stretching and is related in action to panel beating processes. It is used wherever low volumes of compound curved panels are required; typically in coachbuilding, car restoration, spaceframe chassis racing cars that meet regulations that require sheet metal panels resembling mass production vehicles (Nascar), car prototypes and aircraft skin components. English wheel production is at its highest volumes, in low volume sports car production, particularly when more easily formed aluminum is used.
Power hammers are mechanical forging hammers that use a non-muscular power source to raise the hammer preparatory to striking, and accelerate it onto the work being hammered. These are also sometimes called "Open Die Power Forging Hammers." They have been used by blacksmiths, bladesmiths, metalworkers, and manufacturers since the late 1880s.
