[Jewelry making - Article 00037] - [Orchid] Care and feeding of rolling mills

[Marty Hykin]

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Dear Orchidians.

    I am wondering if any of you can point me to a comprehensive book on
    how to get the best use out of a rolling mill, the care and feeding
    thereof etc. I purchased one (at last!) about 6 months ago - still
    haven't unpacked the little darling from its box. It is a relatively
    inexpensive one, hand-cranked (I am strong!) and I don't anticipate
    doing any high volume or heavy duty work. I am merely a cheerful
    amateur metal/jewelry worker for the last 50 years and my one-and-
    only experience with a rolling mill was when I took a single
    jewelry- making course in Providence, R.I. about 45 years ago. I made
    and rolled out some mokume billets and was thrilled by the
    experience. Anyway, here I am all these years later and thought it's
    about time to make a better acquaintance with this kind of useful
    machine. I've been a bit distracted building a 400 sq ft studio for
    my wife this past summer and fall. I expect to be distracted a bit
    longer while finishing my three half-built boats this winter. Too
    many irons in the fire?? Maybe. Anyway, that's why the durned mill is
    still in its box. But I can hear it grumbling around inside there,
    making demands to come out and play with the other tools. Sooner or
    later I'll have to give in. I keep looking at those ads for the book
    about "How to get the most out of your flex shaft" and wondering if
    there isn't a similar compendium or gathering-together of rolling
    mill-ology. Any ideas? Of course, I do pick up dozens of tips from
    the Orchid postings - all very interesting and useful. I am endlessly
    grateful for the knowledge generously shared on this and other
    subjects. And I have seen some info also, included more or less in
    passing in various jewelry making books - but an organized,
    dedicated, focused treatise on the little roly-poly would be a great
    thing to have. Any ideas? 

    Thanks very much. 

    Marty in Victoria, BC - where rolling is a way of life, but mostly
    it's old folks rolling about in electric scooters and best stay out
    of their way!
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