Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
brand new to metalworking
Very good day,
I am the new owner of a tree 2uvrc, and this is my first piece of metalworking equipment. I intend to use this in my factory, where we produce textile products. I have purchased hundreds of industrial sewing machines from factories that have gone out of business around us, and intend on modifying these machines for custom styles of stitching. A lot of these machines are solid cast iron made anywhere form the early 1920's up until about the 1960's. Please direct me to where I can find additional information on working with cast iron. I have been lurking here for about 6 months and want to thank you all for the information that you provide. One foreseeable problem that I will have is working with very irregular cast iron shapes that might not fit easily into a vise. Please let me know if there is any information. Here are some images of the shapes I will need to work with, many of the mods deal directly with the main castings. http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollect...ges/image1.htm http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollect...es/image54.htm Please also let me know where in the north west area I can purchase small amounts of stock to get me started. Jason |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Be the Norm Abrams (This Old House) of metalworking | Metalworking | |||
Anybody know about metalworking in Denmark? | Metalworking | |||
A Metalworking Term I never Knew Before | Metalworking | |||
OT - Are there ANY metalworking newsgroups around???? | Metalworking | |||
Please limit topics to metalworking | Metalworking |