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04-07-2015, 08:55 PM
What if you had a round piece with a slot milled into it. Hold it in your vise and stick the hot end into the slot and then bend the bar around the circumference on the round. Much quicker than fiddling with a bit of hot SS on a H-frame press and you should get a more scroll like form.
Hunting American dentists since 2015.
04-07-2015, 09:37 PM
bend it hot, easiest way to do it, if you have the equipment to heat it up with.
DA
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04-07-2015, 11:55 PM
Bend it hot seems to be the way to go, I don't think I have the 'fire power' to get about 6" of it red hot. I can do small silver solder jobs and that's about it. I could try doing it a bit at a time - works with mild steel that I do know I've done it. Whether it works with stainless I have no idea - to me it seems it should but there again I thought 3mm thick stainless would be easy to scroll
 so my thoughts are pretty useless.  I'm going to try the press see how that goes no heat, cold, it will either work or it won't  The way Darren suggested works well with mild steel, normally it takes two one to hold and bend the bar whilst the other uses the torch.  DaveH
04-08-2015, 12:13 AM
Just tell your wife that scroll work is out of fashion these days and the way of the future is crisp, straight lines.
Hunting American dentists since 2015.
04-08-2015, 12:29 AM
04-08-2015, 02:03 AM
Well it's cloudy, overcast, grey day - been raining looks like more rain forecast is rain, I think I will go back to bed.
DaveH 
04-08-2015, 06:57 AM
(04-07-2015, 07:54 PM)DaveH Wrote: I'm thinking of doing it in the 20 ton press - that should deform it. From the pic (how come it doesn't appear in the quote?) I'd be afraid of the "channel" just spreading open.  Steve
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04-08-2015, 07:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-08-2015, 07:57 AM by Bill Gruby.)
Have you tried the heat yet Dave. If so, how did it go. Maybe making the scroll a little larger would help?
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