Bending & Rolling Machine

[Ian B]

I came across this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEYuvKohrx0

(8 minutes, shows the Super Vulcain bending & rolling machine in use)

Looks like a nice versatile machine. But not $9,000 nice! So having thoughts about making something similar from the scrap laying around in my shop, can't be too difficult. Main difference would be that I wouldn't be using aluminium extrusions, just plain old welded steel.

Anyone have something similar?

Ian

[bob308]

check out the gingery book store. also your old-time book store.

[metalmagpie]

I would really think twice before acquiring a machine like that. Do you do a lot of twisting, scroll work, etc? And are trying to improve your productivity? Well then maybe. But in a normal home shop having a thing like that bolted to the floor out in the middle of the room - well, let's just say it isn't very space efficient.

metalmagpie

[Paul Alciatore]

Grossly overpriced!

[ulav8r]

At that price it should have hydraulics to do all the work and a month's worth of bar stock.

[garyhlucas]

Hossfeld. Bought ours off Ebay, paid $850 + $250 shipping. Came with a few more dies than we needed, So I sold off what we didn't need for really cheap prices like 25% of new to get rid of them quick. Only got $2800 for the extra dies!

[reggie_obe]

A Hossfeld isn't going to twist pickets like that machine or do it with repeatability. $9000 may be a lot for a compact multi function machine. How many prototypes do you think they made tested and scraped before coming up with that version? For a small fence, railing and gate maker, it would be a money maker.

[Ian B]

Don't worry - I'm not planning handing over that kind of cash for the machine. Knock a couple of zeroes off, and that's about the max I'd spend on making my own. I'm from Yorkshire, don't forget.

I just thought it was a nice design though.

Ian

[Black Forest]

A Hossfeld isn't going to twist pickets like that machine or do it with repeatability. $9000 may be a lot for a compact multi function machine. How many prototypes do you think they made tested and scraped before coming up with that version? For a small fence, railing and gate maker, it would be a money maker.

For what it does it is quite compact and efficient it seems to me. The price a company must sell a product for is usually a factor of 10:1 on cost to produce if they will stay in business. The cost of materials is a very small part of what it costs to produce a product. There is so much overhead involved that often gets overlooked by us HSM'S. We tend to just look and think, "Yeah, I could build that for a lot less."