1917 Swiss Bead Roller Restoration - Making New Ones for a Masterpiece

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Before watching this video, I highly recommend watching this one first: https://youtu.be/zBIqITpCV9U In this video I'm restoring an antique bead roller made in Switzerland around 1917. A subscriber from Switzerland sent me this one. It was an old machine in their company, which they would otherwise threw onto the steel waste for recycling. I started this restoration pretty much exactly two years ago. Back then I knew I need a bead roller for the car restoration, so this would be the perfect item. After being 15 days into this restoration I had to put it aside and started working on the car. I could not finish this project in time, so it was sitting on my shelf for around 1.5 years. After I finished the front axle restoration it was time to finally finish the bead roller. I've spent another 21 days to finish it, so 36 days in total. There were so many parts to machine to get this bead roller back to perfectly working condition. I restored all the original pieces that were left and replaced all the not original ones. I tried my best to design replacement parts that will match an over 100 years old design. I'm pretty happy with the overall appearance. There were so many changes done to it: hexagon clamping screws changed to slotted domed head ones, thumb screw for clamping the dead stop and adjuster lever, completely new handle for the depth adjuster, completely new crank built from scratch and longer shafts to extend the throat. All guided sections for the shafts have been freshly machined and new sleeves have been installed where necessary. I decided to keep a structured surface on the body and only knock off the highest casting marks and fill in the lowest holes and such with body filler and not go with a perfectly smooth surface. I really like that combination with the glossy black paint, the antique brass tag and all the freshly machined parts with a brushed nickel plated finish. The bead roller is now in perfectly working condition and I'll keep it in the shop to use it for other projects in the future. Can't wait to make new dies for it for other applications. I hope you like my work and enjoy the video. Huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters and especially to: Aaron White Adel AlSaffar Alfonso Baz Andrew Egerton August Kupfer Ben Burns Sigoss Family Bold Cheddar Brenna Redpath Chris Ulivarri Edward Conway John Shebanow Joseph Kamps Josh Ledford Joshua Scher Kar Kerem Yollu Kyle O'Keefe Lambda GPU Workstations Lorraine Hughes Marcus H. Mark Tesmer Michael Fleisher Mo B Nick Houston NoLoneSurvivor Peter Cyprian Peter Pearson ReddDirt Ricky Adolphe Ryan Pickett Scott Tomlin Stefano Di Biase Stuart Tyler Carruth Vickie Bligh Vince Valenti Yale Baker Albert Siemers Alex Manning Andre andrew Anton Pchelkin Arni Bjorgvinsson Ben Simmonds Benny Big Ole' Bran Bobby herrera Bonnie Williamson Brian Hoerl Briscolone05 Bruce Boschek Caleb Betczynski Chad Bryant Charles D Chris Faehl Chris Visscher Chris Walter Christian Fjelldal Christopher Lobay Communidad Damien Fuller-Sutherland Daniel Varga Dave Hardware David Chang-Yen David Lehnus David P Hruska David Thompson Derson Jacomini Dustin Davis Eddie Erik Nordby Flo Sauter Gareth Rimmer Hakan Uzunoglu Heidi Jeffs Ivan Marks Jack Curry JacopoBello James Hare Jesus Fernandez Cortes Justin Miller Kiro Ivanovski Kyle Edgar Laurent Bolli Leevi Kontkanen Marc Cerisier Mary Casella Matthew Johnson MDC Mihai Máté Tamás Molnár Norbert Spaar Oleksandr Oliver Quandt Panagiotis Mavrommatis Pat Nakajima Rania Zainalabedin Raoul Kriesi repülő búgás Roan Fryer Rob Sherfick Robert Landrum Ross Clark Sam Sarah B. Scott Brooks Scott Marshall Sparrow Spencer Kormos Stanley Dimant Stefan Heymanns Svenja Kuckla Taylor Stimpson Thanny Tim Holt Timofey Lychik Trevor Kam Tucker Ifft wdwfan78 William Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english. Thank you for watching :-) „I make a new one“ T-Shirts: https://teespring.com/stores/my-mechanics My Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/mymechanicsinsights My Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/mymechanics