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Bob Engelhardt Bob Engelhardt is offline
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Default Interesting slip rolls

wolfgang wrote:
This bending roll arrangement as shown above is called 3-roll pyramid,
and is typically used to roll heavy plate for large pipe, pressure
vessels, and steam drums.

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This type of bending roll arrangement is not suitable for sheet metal
work.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. You just saved me a pile of work. I
was all set to build one of these for sheet metal. Boy, I would have
been ****ed when I found that it didn't work!

RCM: there is still a signal in all the noise,
Bob