Full Size English Wheel Complete 44 in Throat

The 44" welded machine is large enough to handle the needs of any shop. The frame is mounted on 3" casters to allow for easy movement around your shop. The machine also features storage for the anvil wheels when not in use. The upper wheel is an 8" dia. x 3" wide 1045 steel forging polished to a 63 surface finish. The screw lift assembly has a quick release cam mechanism which lowers the anvil yoke with a 90 deg. rotation of control handle. When rotated back to operating position the original pressure setting is reestablished.

Six 3" wide x 3" dia. anvil wheels are included with radii (2.375 R, 3.25 R, 5.00 R, 8.50 R, 12.00 R, & flat) to facilitate most wheeling requirements. The anvil wheels are made from 1045 alloy steel also polished to a 63 finish. The anvil yoke is adjustable on both sides of the axle support with thumb screws so that the wheel can be upset for throwing a flange truing etc.

Capacity 18 Ga. steel, 1/8" aluminum

English wheel gets it's name from the two steel wheels between  which metal is formed.  The wheels - one above and one below - are rolled against one another with a piece of sheet metal in between under pressure. The wheels roll as the sheet metal moves back and forth, and the pressure can be adjusted with a setting. Shaping results as the lower  wheel is forced under pressure into the metal, stretching and forming it.

It is especially useful on large panels.  The wheel works equally well on aluminum or steel.  The wheel can produce very smooth, very complicated curved shapes.

The upper wheel - always with a flat rolling surface - is fixed to the machine.  The curve, or crown,  or the interchangeable lower wheel = the roller - determines the shape of the piece being formed.  The more curve in the roller, the more curve in the work.

A roller with the smallest curve possible must be used.  A roller with more curve than necessary may overstretch and leave roller marks in the metal so the roller must be chosen carefully.

An adjustment on the wheel varies the amount of pressure exerted against the metal by the roller.  A knob below the roller sets this pressure.  In addition to the pressure adjustment, wheels have a quick release lever.  This allows the operator to drop the roller away fro the upper wheel so the work can be removed and inserted quickly without losing the pressure setting.