Has anyone here added a motor to a cheapie bead roller? Looking at a consew motor but no idea if it would actually work. Just wondering what other people have come up with. Seen a few YouTube’s with drills and starter ring gears. I’m looking for something a bit more compact and professional looking. Eastwood offers the motor from theirs separately for around $300, maybe that’s the way to go?
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Hand-held pipe threader - lots of torque & low speed.
https://www.harborfreight.com/portab...der-62203.html
But if a "cheapie" roller maybe the $200 for the drive would be out of scale.
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I’m sure that would work but they’re very noisy and heavy. Here’s a link to Eastwood’s version. Like to keep it compact like this.
https://www.eastwood.com/eastwood-be...ve-system.html
Does a wiper motor really have the jam for a bead roller? Not wanting to add a gear train or pulley systemLast edited by Captain K; 11-22-2020, 02:00 PM.
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Hi Captain K,
Here is a link to a sheet metal forum that I visit that has a lot about the powering and design of bead rollers. The You Tube channel attached is a fella that does a video of powering his bead roller. He has other good videos on sheet metal work too.
https://allmetalshaping.com/index.php
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjG...D0f9Q/featured
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Mr fixit for the family
Chris
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This is how I motorised my cheapo roller. I struck lucky with this geared down 3-phase motor, though I had to collect it from 300 miles away - though I fitted it in on a round trip, But the round trip was by train, so my travelling holdall was pretty heavy on the way home !
http://www.rohart.plus.com/rohart/engweb/mybeadr.html
With the VFD it goes from zero to about 30 rpm with full control.Richard - SW London, UK, EU.
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I used a PWM speed controller driving a surplus gear motor, which drives the roller through a sprocket and chain for more reduction. It will run at a slow crawl, up to faster than I want, and has plenty of torque.
EdFor just a little more, you can do it yourself!
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Originally posted by Mr Fixit View PostHi Captain K,
Here is a link to a sheet metal forum that I visit that has a lot about the powering and design of bead rollers. The You Tube channel attached is a fella that does a video of powering his bead roller. He has other good videos on sheet metal work too.
https://allmetalshaping.com/forumdisplay.php?f=32
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjG...D0f9Q/featured
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Mr fixit for the family
Chris
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Here is my Harbor Freight cheapo bead roller. The power is a 90 volt DC motor that I had as a spare for my old pattern torch. I think the gear ratio was 30 to 1 and I added a 3 to 1 with the sprockets. It has more than enough grunt to roll .060 aluminum in one pass if you want to. I have built tube beading dies that I used to roll hose retention beads on 16 gauge steel tube, but not in one pass. It's actually still a little fast and I have plans and parts to increase the sprocket ratio. I use an on/off foot pedal to control it.
The frame has been heavily reinforced. The top shaft has been modified to slide so that dies can be aligned and the toggle setup allows you to keep the roller depth adjustment on multiple beads the same without cranking on the adjustment screw/
Last edited by Bluechips; 11-23-2020, 09:31 AM.
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There's some good ideas there bluechips. I'm leaning toward building a new frame from scratch, after having seen the great lengths others have gone to to make the HF types useable. I have a good selection of dies but haven't really used it very much. As everybody else has said it's a 2 man job with a crank, and I'm only 1. Been watching Lazze a lot on youtube lately, thinking of building something like he sellsLast edited by Captain K; 11-23-2020, 10:29 AM.
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