U-Weld-It English Wheel Kit

• Perfect for those who can operate a welding machine
• All of the critical components of our floor model machine are supplied. All you do is provide the metal for the frame.
• Use frame and assembly specifications in the supplied instruction booklet or use your own design!
• The machine's features and capabilities are the same as the floor model unit.

You supply: Steel tubing for the frame.

We supply: 8" x 3" upper wheel, yoke and bearings, six lower anvils and bearings, lower wheel jack, jack assembly, kick wheel adjuster, four casters, blue prints and assembly instructions.

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.