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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 !!
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Scott Bryan
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#2 posted 1298 days ago
Pinkfish, this looks pretty interesting. You engineered a nice set-up.
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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!
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#4 posted 1298 days ago
great idea ,
quick and simple ,
and cheap !
thanks .
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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.
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a1Jim
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#6 posted 1297 days ago
Some time were surprised when we give things a try. Good job PF
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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.
TopamaxSurvivor
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#8 posted 1297 days ago
Dog sled or kid sled?
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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.
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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#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!
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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!
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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