Anyone used this kit for track making!

[wahiba]

The craft TV channel is usually card making and the like. However, on their website there was a back programme on metal work and it turned out to be this firm:

http://www.metal-craft.co.uk/

based in Hull, the tool for producing long bends would probably bend track. If using steel strip for track I reckon the shears and punch could also prove useful. Of course it cold also be used to make bridges and other infrastructure.

 

[ge_rik]

Is this the tool you had in mind?

http://www.metal-craft.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=35_37&product_id=7

The video makes it look easy - might start another career as a wrought iron gate maker

£156.99 - though - but it looks very well made

Rik

 

[wahiba]

Yep - that is the one. Quite fascinating, and my first thought - could it bend track and/or could the steel strip be used for track?

 

[PhilP]

Yep - that is the one. Quite fascinating, and my first thought - could it bend track and/or could the steel strip be used for track?

Maybe, and yes..

The 'maybe' as not sure how it would cope with the profile of track, which is wider at the bottom..
Steel-strip track works, but tends to wear the wheel profile quite quickly.. Fine for larger scales, and if not track-powered.
IMHO of course!

 

[trammayo]

Didn't know that company was still around. Used some of their stuff nearly fifty years ago!

 

[KandNWLR]

Didn't know that company was still around. Used some of their stuff nearly fifty years ago!

Blimey Do tell us more

 

[trammayo]

Imitation wrought iron - me and a mate bought a load of bright mild steel (with a view to making all sorts of garden ornaments etc). So much stuff in fact, that we had nowhere to keep it inside. The rain washed off the grease over a winter, the metal rusted, and a teenage dream of making money rusted away too.

The tooling was quite good though. Liked the idea of punching holes for the rivets.