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Leaf Candle Cup

Demonstration by Jr Strasil

Wednesday May 28, 2003

 
-GURU
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.
Jr.
[ 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.
Jr.
Questions Comments?
Milt
Are candle cups fastened with a rivet from the pointed tip?
-GURU
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.
PAW-PAW
Iron, I really like the way you plan your tooling. Some good skull sweat in some of them.
Jr.
I try to make it universal so it works for more than one thing paw paw, also try to keep them simple.
PAW-PAW
I think about the only thing I would do differently is use a ring from pipe, instead of rolling them out of 1/4".
Jr.
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.
-GURU
Round bar makes very good bending surfaces for straight or curved. Also provides its own weld prep.


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