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Tom that is just about the time you call your friendly HelicArc man. i was going to buy one when I retired and I should have because down even the best clubmaker w/in the Myrtle Beach area don't know what a HelicArc welder is or just what it can do.
RK
-------Original Message-------
Date: Friday, July 25, 2003 2:52:06 PM
Subject: RE: ShopTalk: Loft & Lie auction
DAN:
I have had a fair amount of experience with this machine in the past.
The presentation is right in that the machine sold for about $3000 and
was offered back in the 1980s from a company that was based out of
Dallas. It is electric motor driven with a speed reducer that rotates
the acme threaded drive bar on the top of the machine. It was intended
to be used primarily for harder cast stainless irons, but because of the
mechanism you have to be a little careful with it. The bar hooks on the
hosel of the iron, and in turn there is a block that is attached on the
threaded drive that pushes the bar to do its bending. The switch to
control the movement of the bar is a toggle that you can turn on and
off, so as to "inch" the bar a little at a time. Because of the nature
of this constant drive mechanism that drives the bending bar, it was my
experience that you had to really move the hosel well past the point of
your desired loft or lie bend, because of the spring back nature of the
material used to make the head. For example with 17-4 irons and this
machine, I remember having to drive the bar so that it looked like you
had bent the hosel 5 degrees to really get a permanent bend of 1 degree.
That got a little scary at times and I do recall breaking a few heads.
And I can tell you when they let go, because they were under a lot more
tension with this drive mechanism, wow did they scare the heck out of
you when they broke!! Loud and with a real pop and the shaft + hosel
went flying!!
TOM WISHON
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Allan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:45 AM
To: ShopTalk
Subject: ShopTalk: Loft & Lie auction
Here is something I have never seen before.
Does anyone have and use one of these?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3619697789&category=4
7325
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