Most often, "baskets" of metal are made by hot forging. However, not everyone has the opportunity to make a mini-forge in the home workshop, so we offer you an alternative - a manual machine for making "baskets" from an 8 mm thick steel square in the "cold" way.
Using this manual machine you can make blanks for the manufacture of decorative "baskets" that are used in art forging to decorate various metal structures. Ready-made “curls” are first fixed at the edges in the desired position, and then welded.
The main stages of work
From a steel square with a thickness of 10 mm, it is necessary to cut eight identical segments 25 mm long. Then, two blanks must be welded to a strip of metal 25 mm wide so that between them there passes a square bar of 8 mm. First, set the desired size on the strip, and then weld and cut off the grinder.
In total, four such blanks should be obtained. In the next step, you will need to make a conductor for a square bar, which consists of a front fixed stop and a rear movable part.
To do this, apply previously manufactured blanks from square segments to the main shaft, and scald them on both sides with pieces of steel strip. We put the finished elements on a steel shaft. Then it remains only to weld two handles from the profile pipe 15x15 mm to the movable part of the machine.
Then we install the assembled structure in a vice, insert a piece of a 8 mm square that needs to be twisted, and twist the knobs counterclockwise. Please note that this design is designed to twist two square rods at the same time, but this is not very convenient - it is better one by one. As a result, we get such “curls”.
Then we simply expose the blanks and weld the "basket" itself out of them. In principle, there is nothing complicated. The detailed process of manufacturing a manual machine, see the video on the site.
