Heavy Duty Jenny SWAGER SWAGING Machine Bead Roller

first class bit of kit

Brilliant for light sheet when you get it right but infuriating if you go even 1mm off line. The stand is worth the extra as it is lets two at the workpiece which you can't do on a vice mounted one.

Rubbish quality so robbed it of it’s vital components and made my own . Plus motorised it for ease of use

Good piece of kit , packaging and delivery were dreadful, was a miracle that it arrived in one piece , box was torn to pieces, bolts to fit it together had fell out of the box , think more the couriers fault than wholesaler

If you are thinking of making panels for car repairs, fuel tanks, cycle wings or similar, then this is a great machine for all that. I would also advise you to check out Ron Covell's excellent video on you tube called Beading Machine Basics.The Metz machine is nicely made, the engineered parts such as the gears are a good mesh, the bearing blocks holding the drive shafts are finished nicely and of good quality material. The Dies are hardened and work nicely.The stand with this model of machine is very useful and also holds the extra dies when not in use, I made a wheeled platform for my machine to move it around the workshop easier (see pictures)as the top part of the machine is not light!The instructions for assembly and use are not comprehensive, presumably it is on the basis that you already know how to use this type of equipment? However, assembly is straightforward, a 6mm hex or allen key is required and not supplied as well as some adjustable spanners to do up the nuts and bolts on the stand.Finish is very good, but on mine some rust spots, luckily the Metz is very similar to a tractor paint I have so I can touch that in.Operation is smooth, and the wheels really make some great beads, I tested the machine by making some beads in a Land Rover door inside panel and the beads made the panel markedly more rigid.There are lots of uses for this machine and I am going to get a lot out of it, I do suggest modifying the top shaft tensioner bolt which is square headed, by making it a T handle shape which will save you looking for a spanner everytime.I did consider a smaller machine which only had a 7 inch throat on it, this one has an 18 inch throat and for putting beads in fuel tank and larger panels, I thought this machine justified the extra cost.Other dies are available so i will be investing in some and making some on the lathe as they are a fairly easy job.Another modification I will look into is to find an electric motor with very low RPM gearbox to connect to the cranking shaft, and a foot operated variable control as this will enable me to hold larger panels with both hands whilst feeding them through the dies. However, the hand crank does allow precise control for accurate beads.All in all a great piece of equipment for the money

You will receive it in two boxes, one of the boxes - the one with the bead roller in it, will be packaged properly, however the other package - the one with all the nuts and bolts and plates and stand, will be broken and likely as not, either be missing bolts/plates or if you are lucky, you will not have lost anything. I lost a pack of bolts and washers in mine, no doubt they are still in the delivery van. Rather go on about it I have a vast array of nuts bolts and washers that helped complete the building of my bead roller.The dies are good quality and give excellent results, there is also a cutting die that cuts 18 gauge plate easily which to me is a huge bonus! If it is fastened to the floor with rawl fixings - like mine, you will have zero movement as it is made very well indeed, but I would not recommend trying to use it unfastened. A vice will do the job if you only use it intermittently, but the supplied legs bolt to the base and are solid once fastened.All in all an excellent, well made, robust product only marred by the fact that they don't seem to care about packaging.

Robusta maquina y facil de usar. La base podria ser mas estable y los recambios son caros. El precio muy bie y cumple su trabajo.