Thanks! It has been too busy to film lately and I miss it.

Gracias por ver. Me alegra que lo hayas disfrutado.

Oh, if only I could make stuff as a blacksmith. Got a forge...usually only use it for heating stuff for rolling and bending.

i use soapstone mostly...but sometimes i use whiteout makers depending on what I'm marking.

@@simcoespring ok soapstone thanks!. I notice it doesnt burn off.

@@MiniTrail50 yup both the soapstone and white out doesn't burn very easily.

We are a small repair garage in canada. These springs are made for our local customers. It is part of the service we offer.

I just have NEVER adjusted that chop saw because its a bit of a pain, but its not a bad idea. i might not be able to depending on the direction of the angle but...hmmm

we just heat and roll the eyes we don't do the head treatment process

@@simcoespring So after rolling the eye, the spring needs a heat treatment?

it is an eye rolling machine that was made in the 1950s (roughly)

If you are good at forge welding you could probably get to pieces to stick together, but you would have to bring it up to forge welding temperature and then re-quench it and heat treat it. HOWEVER, I believe that spring steel is quite tricky to get to stick together because of how hard it is. Just take a little extra effort.

Kitowski eye bender. Manufactured by Kitowski MFG. Co. St. Cloud Minn. USA.

@@simcoespring thank you! I am a smith by trade making strap hinges(30+ years) and my shoulders are really starting to show the wear. I’m wondering if a eye rolling machine will roll barrels around a 1/2” and 3/8” mandrel and not lock on it?

@@1clinkerman i think the smallest roller we have for that machine is 11/16. The only problem I have is that they are hard to find. I tried looking up Kitowski MFG CO. and I can't find them online.

@@1clinkerman I think my machine was made in the 1950s...but we are not sure because I can't find any information on it. heck I might be the only one in Canada with one.

As long as you don't aneel the steel it keeps its hardness and flexibility. Never had an issue.

Spring steel anneals at 400 degrees F. I believe red hot steel is well above 400 degrees.

That is pretty cool. All the way around the world!

We are located in southern Ontario. Check our location out at www.simcoespring.com there is a google map on our contact page. There are not many of us "old School" types that will make these anymore. That's why I thought it would be cool to show how we do it. The machine was made back in 1955ish

@@simcoespring After you made that eye. Do you have to do anything else to treat the steal because of heating the spring? Wish you weren't so far away.

@@upnorthyooper1196 I know that when I heat up the steel that I cannot melt it. I also know that if you heat it past oxidization the steel will burn, which is why I have to paint the heat back and forth so fast. I have always wondered about the heat treatment myself. I have rolled over 100 eyes over the last 20 years and always wondered that. Even if you heat spring steel past 400 degrees you are removing the temper from the steel, and i was closer to 1200. Any information about this from metallurgists would be awesome.

@@simcoespring I know this is an old post but I’ll comment. When you are heating the eye to roll it you are also annealing the steel. You usually don’t roll eyes on already hardened and tempered material. If you do the whole thing needs annealed to be treated again. Most high carbon spring steels need brought up to at least 1525f and then quenched. Usually you don’t quench above 1600f or you can quench crack it. Below 1525f it starts to fall out of phase and you don’t get the desired lattice structure. After oil quenching usually you run 900f for two hours to temper. This gets you about 39-42hrc.

Sí, tengo un video que muestra cómo funciona la máquina. También le da una buena vista de cada lado. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8h3jKpju5zViH0.html

yup. we don't let any customer drive in our shop.

@@simcoespring It's the accidently falling in I was thinking about.

@@dubsydubs5234 that is why we don't let customers in our shop.

@@simcoespring I wasn't thinking of your customers. Open pits aren't allowed here they have to be covered by something at all times (when not in use) or a barrier has to be put around. It's all good though I wasn't having a go it just made me nervous seeing it, 40 years in the motor trade I've seen my share of unexpected accidents.😀

@@dubsydubs5234 we used to let customers in the shop and let them driver over the pits....until someone drove in and blamed me. after that we keep chains up at the doors and don't let anyone inside. as per the pits, they usually have a vehicle over them. we have a small shop and are quite busy, so pits are usually covered with a vehicle.