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-GURU
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Tonight's demo is one of several in a series of similar demos for making candle cups and pans.
However, the methods used here are completely different
Tonight's Demo is by Jr. Strasil. This is our 158th iForge demo.
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Jr.
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[ This demo is being posted by guru for Jr Strasil. This demo is out of order so I will explain the tooling here and then perhaps again.]
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Figure 1
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4 pointed star shaped blank for a drip pan.
Blank ready to have the center depressed while hot.
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Figure 2
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The tool to depress the center of this candle cup is made from a round base with hardy shank, drilled for a pilot pin. A ring made from 1/4" round is welded to the base to create the depression. The top tool is made similarly with a drilled clearance hole for the pilot pin and another ring made of 1/4" round welded to the pressure plate. The ring on the top part is about an inch in diameter smaller than the bottom ring. If the rings are too close a fit the cup will wrinkle and take a lot of force to make the part.
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Figure 3
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Blank with center depressed hot, notice that the 4 tips of the star are deformed up, this is not a problem and nothing will be done about it now.
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Figure 4
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Curving the leaves and rolling them down using a leaf
tool.
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Figure 5
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Showing what the pan looks like after the leaves have been rolled and curved.
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Figure 6
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The leaf drip pans with candle cups from other demos.
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Jr.
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Questions Comments?
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Milt
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Are candle cups fastened with a rivet from the pointed tip?
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-GURU
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The cups can have a shoulder and shank to be riveted or be riveted seperately using a plain rivet depending on the style of cup.
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PAW-PAW
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Iron, I really like the way you plan your tooling. Some good skull sweat in some of them.
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Jr.
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I try to make it universal so it works for more than one thing paw paw, also try to keep them simple.
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PAW-PAW
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I think about the only thing I would do differently is use a ring from pipe, instead of rolling them out of 1/4".
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Jr.
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Pipe has a square edge and sometimes cuts especially on hot work
I used to make candle cups and other things cold in the hydraulic press, had a high failure rate till I switched to round.
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-GURU
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Round bar makes very good bending surfaces for straight or curved.
Also provides its own weld prep.
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