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Production Methods: Cool Demonstrations of Metal Spinning

By Rain Noe - March 4, 2011

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The metal-forming method known as spinning will be familiar to anyone who's used a pottery wheel, and it's one of my favorites to watch. (Stamping is over too quickly to be interesting.)

While I think this dude is crazy for not wearing safety glasses, I enjoyed watching him spin this flat disc into a light fixture:

For a closer view of what's happening to the metal, check out this video of a flat disc of aluminum being shaped into a can with a CNC lathe:

Then there's spinning on a much larger scale -- I liked watching this video of a guy making a baseplate for a fan because it kind of looks like he's working on a time machine:

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Safety Glasses USA

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I'd like to know where that last video was filmed, because the guy working the lathe is definitely violating some OSHA regulations. Safety Glasses would be an absolute requirement for that job.
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http://botchjob.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/baubericht-modell-1134680-2/

i tried the process once on a woodworkin lathe with an improvised toolset and it worked quite well for an first attempt. took me one day for moldmakin and spinning 3 prototypes (of which the last one was free of faults)

so if no professional is at hand it's process that can be handled at any design facilities workshop
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metal spin

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I was part of a student group project from the Univeristy of Applied Science Potsdam's product design department that worked with a local metal spinning business to create new products for their unique production method.
results can be seen here: http://www.metalspinning-fhp.de/startseite.html
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