Yesterday I spent quite some time (unusually) as a passenger on a motorway journey and my mind wandered to looking at the forest of long tapered lamp posts wondering how the heck they make them.
So how do you make a steel pipe of perhaps 30 foot length with a 2:1 taper over its length?
If you've got hundreds/thousands to do, make a tapered mould, start with a parallel tube and expand it by ? hydraulic/explosive forming or a tapered mandrel?? Pure guesswork, not something I know anything about.
Next guess??
Tim
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It's a PDF. Download it separately (right click on the link, and 'save as'.) Open from where you save it, don't let firefox try.
I would recommend installing the upgraded version of Adobe Acrobat, but it's an enormouse download, forces a reboot when it updates itself and is generally a pain in t'behind. If you have a quite new and fast PC it's not too bad.
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