Metal Roller/Research Development

Overview

Research for the Metal Roller.

Hot Rolling

Ideas

• It seems likely that the metal rollers will need to be carved out of large castings on a lathe in order to be smooth and solid. In order to avoid the need for a lathe during construction it might be possible to use the machine itself as an in place lathe by temporarily rigging the roller drive system for high speed and mounting a cutting bit. --Tristan Hume (talk) 03:59, 28 January 2015 (CET)

Next steps

• search the wiki for metal rolling pages
• grab links from youtube, google, and wikipedia for relevant information.
• Classify metal rolling techniques
• identify industry standard designs/manufacturers
• evaluate designs against OSE Spec
• formulate design for CAD team
• etc...

Research

• This is a great introductory article on the design of roll forming machines by Chuck Summerhill of Roll-Kraft. File:Basic Roll Design.pdf

See Also

• Wikipedia: Metal Rolling
• YouTube: Metal Rolling

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