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Project by pinkfish posted 1298 days ago 1604 views 2 times favorited 13 comments Add to Favorites Watch

Made a simple steam box with some pine and some insulation with a wallpaper steamer for the steam source. Works really nicely!

Surprised by how nicely it worked and how easily it worked, although so far I have only been bending 1/4” pieces of wood.

You can see the bending form I used and a few of the pieces I bent.




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TopamaxSurvivor

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#1 posted 1298 days ago

Can’t wait to see what you bent. I’m going to do that one of these days !!

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

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#2 posted 1298 days ago

Pinkfish, this looks pretty interesting. You engineered a nice set-up.

-- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine

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daltxguy

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#3 posted 1298 days ago

Let’s hope you didn’t steam the paint off of the Jag

Simplicity at its best! Now if we could only get rigid insulation here and could find a wallpaper steamer!

-- If you can't joint it, bead it!

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patron

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#4 posted 1298 days ago

great idea ,
quick and simple ,
and cheap !

thanks .

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

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#5 posted 1297 days ago

Great project. I’m in the middle of making one for my self. Thanks for the ideas.

-- Marty Ohio

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#6 posted 1297 days ago

Some time were surprised when we give things a try. Good job PF

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

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pinkfish

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#7 posted 1297 days ago

Yes, hope I don’t steam anything off the jag,. Making a bent runner sled at the moment, now I have a steamer I might try some other stuff too.

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TopamaxSurvivor

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#8 posted 1297 days ago

Dog sled or kid sled?

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

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pinkfish

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#9 posted 1297 days ago

Kid sled. Getting ready for winter so my daughter can play in the snow.

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TopamaxSurvivor

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#10 posted 1297 days ago

Great idea dad!! You must be planning of going to the mountains :-))

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

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kweenbee

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#11 posted 1297 days ago

Great piece of ingenuity.
Certainly beats the camp stove, stove pipe combo I sometimes use.
Quite impressed that you use a Jaguar as your second sawhorse!

-- "The Artful Bodger"

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Slice

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#12 posted 838 days ago

If you get the sled together please post it. I was just thinking of making one the other day and wondered how difficult it would be to do. Great idea on the box…inexpensive and it works!

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pinkfish

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#13 posted 838 days ago

Hi there, here is the bent runner sled I made with this steam box:
http://lumberjocks.com/projects/30483

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