[Jewelry making - Article 00995] - Re: [Orchid] Drawbenches notes

[frank goss]

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    My draw bench is a sold wood table top with as heavy swivel vice
    mounted at one end and a wench off a boat trailer mounted at the
    other.All sorts of other tools, hydraulic press, drill press,
    grinding wheel etc, mounted in between but set back out of a direct
    line between the vice and the wench. The wench has the nylon type
    strap with a loop tied in it. You place the loop over the handle of
    the draw tongs with them attached to the end of the wire. You
    tighten it down and crank the wench handle. I use it mostly to draw
    heavy white gold wire. The yellow gold wire and silver I can usually
    pull myself. I'm 5'11" and weigh 200lb's. Got the upper body strength
    and the weight for most of it. White gold will usually kick my butt..
    not the wench's. Cheep and effective. 

Frank Goss
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