Mental Gymnastics - Visuospatial Mind Required
Mental Gymnastics - Visuospatial Mind Required
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Hello - I've been thinking about a seemingly simple problem for days with no avail. Even the sheet metal "unfolding" software to create a flat pattern from curved shapes fails because it cannot take into account the manufacturing method (manual metal twister). Yes, I know a flight screw can be created with a cold rolling machine, but I would like to produce it with what I have. If you can come up with a solution backed with evidence you are beyond my MIT grad cognitive abilities. Thank you in advance you to those geniuses out there. Please see image.





RE: Mental Gymnastics - Visuospatial Mind Required
The normal way to produce screw flights is to cut flat semicircles, stretch and twist them over an appropriate size tube, then butt weld them.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Mental Gymnastics - Visuospatial Mind Required
If you have thousands of dollars for equipment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkj0CBmER0
Or if you are just very skilled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAD0hu-pwSA
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Kinda like you make a Mobius strip
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Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Mental Gymnastics - Visuospatial Mind Required
Just had the same thought after finding same vid with google
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Cut the stack of washers down one side.
Pull each washer apart axially as if you were going to make an old-fashioned spring lock washer.
put the axial rod down the center of the stack, weld the bottom stretched washer in place.
Weld each subsequent washer to the previous set at the butt-weld joint and to the center rod, rotating each to touch the exit of the previous.
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Possibly, you might contract out the work.
Regards,
Mike
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TTFN (ta ta for now)
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RE: Mental Gymnastics - Visuospatial Mind Required
If you are dealing with expensive materials, you may throw away less waste by cutting semicircles or other partial circles from sheet, twisting and welding, etc.
There is also the option of cutting the entire helix from solid billet, easily accomplished in a lathe with threading capability, and perhaps a bit faster if you can fit a milling head to the cross slide.
You were possibly thinking of tooling similar to that for making spiral welded pipe, where a continuous strip is fed, tangential to the finished pipe and oblique to its axis. ... but to do something like that by feeding the strip fed obliquely but normal to the axis of the finished article, you also have to stretch the strip edge that will become the outer edge of the helix, and/or shrink the strip edge that will become the inner edge of the helix. That becomes more difficult as the central bore or core gets smaller relative to the major diameter.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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SnTMan - That's an hour of time I'm not getting back. Thanks Youtube tube-finning rabbit hole. Amazing the number of countries vying for the tube-finning machine market.
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I am embarrassed I didn't think of that sooner since I once worked in a shop that did that...
On edit: If a person had an engine lathe, some cam followers and some other miscellaneous stuff, and time to mess with it you could most likely make your own setup. Not saying easily...
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If the material to be conveyed is not abrasive, I've seen conveying screws for bottles machined from I think it was an air entrained thermoplastic, or maybe FRP. Something cheaper and easier to machine than metal.
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