SCALES the fast way

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How did you compute how many scales you'd need?

David, I made a sample piece to see what surface was covered with that number of scales, than calculate the surface you want to cover and divide it by the sample surface , multiple that number by the number of scales of the sample and you will be very close by the number of scales you need.

a simple, fine and effective way to home-make the central ridge on any scale, by simple tools too

Daniele, You have the simple way Matt lukes explained or still simpler is that you make the die with a raised rib and simply a block of tin as a contra die, first you put your die on the tin block an give it a blow or two to make the grove , put your scale in place over the grove and with one hammer strike you will have a ribbed scale, and the next and so on , when the edges of the grove become to dull move to an other place on the tin block (This is for brass scales only)

It sure saved a HUGE amount of time

Matt, sure it saved a huge amount of time, when I make my calculation of the drill cycle I come at 20 seconds per scale

I was wondering, how did you get the wire nice and tight on the scale and what type of wire and thickness did you use.

I'm interested in this part, too. They look like staples to me.

Maybe an electric stapler was used

Jason, the wire is 1mm brass wire that I passed trough my rolling mill to make flat wire.
sorry Theo, it are hand made staples :wink:



Jason, the wire may not be to tight on the scale ore it will be to stiff, I just used a simple little tool for closing the staples as some sort of a ring with two long legs



the tool is made of a large nail, filed to shape and a piece of plate silver soldered on it to hold the staple straight up when I bent the first leg down
pictures in next post

Luc