I picked up a Wizard 55 hollow wire lamp at the last Staffordshire Reef gathering. Shown here Wizard N0.55 hollow wire lamp It’s in good condition but the globe retaining ring was missing. Making a replacement seemed simple enough but ended up being more time consuming than expected. @Anthony supplied me with some photos and enough measurements to give it a go. First, I need some detailed drawings Bending a 3/16” brass rod into a circle by hand didn’t work. I needed to make a bending tool capable of forming a circle I seem to have lost the photos from forming the finger grips from 1/8” brass rod but they were not too difficult. I used 2 x 7mm dia steel rods, held in as a former and held them in a vice. Drilled the mounting holes in the rod at 45 Deg and silver soldered them in place. When fitted the diameter was a little small and I had to cut and silver soldered in a piece. Success
Thanks, @Tony Press @pete sav @JEFF JOHNSON @Sellig33 Your average pipe bender isn't designed for solid brass.
Good work the former you mentioned for bending the finger grips could be known as ‘dogs’ over here.. certainly an old smithing term and i still use pairs of dogs for forming flats and round bars when needed :-)
Thanks podbros This was one of those long drawnout projects, where you start, have a problem and set it aside whilst you ponder on a solution. In this case a lot of pondering.
@podbros Could you possibly post a photo or two of your various " dogs " and how to use them ? I need to learn. Thanks.