Bead Roller Kit: Princess Auto/Harbor Freight

[Bob Carriere]

There are a number of site on Utube that shows how to beef up the bead rollers.

Grant beefed up is bead roller with similar brackets and we installed a Volvo leather wrapped steering whell instead of the crank..... make for a smoother cranking speed..... mounted on a foot made of 4 inch x 1/4 inch well casing pipe and welded to a 20 inch commercial not CMP rim.....

Very sturdy.....with multi passes it can handle healthy sheet metal with no deflection. He is working on a special fence for a particular application and more fences for specific uses can be made. It really requires two to operate accurately.... I do the cranking and Grant guides the pieces...

We have used it to set the offset on the patches for his top and will do the same for mine.

Cheers

[Alex van de Wetering]

What a coincidence! I just bought one last week, with the view of making the top cab rear wall for the C8, the moulding along the roof and one day maybe rear fenders with the wire inserted in the edge....(anyone tried that yet with one of these bead rollers?)
Here in Holland the same Chinese bead rollers are sold by HBM-machines in Moordrecht.

Guys, thanks for the ideas and links on beefing up the frame.

Alex