Checkout this buckingbar it works great... www.buckingbar.net
I aggree that the 120 bucks is steep for a bucking bar. A friend of mine had a simular tugnsten bar and I can say that it was the best bar I had ever bucked with. I have always wanted one, they are great. I just might buy one.bsacks05 said:I riveted most all my #3 rivets with a steel bucking bar that had the same dimensions as the "ultimate bucking bar". It is definately my favorite for its size and because I could use any face, but $120? Tungsten alloy? Not for me.
Even if you could get a 6200 degF oven.mburch said:Sounds like a cool tool but that's a lot of money for a chunk of metal, even if it is tungsten. I wonder how many lightbulb filaments I'd have to melt down to make my own?
mcb
That was just a standard bucking bar that I got as part of my Avery kit.John Courte said:Dan C had something similar when he came out to help me close out my HS. Different shape, but same idea. Dense, heavy metal wedge with rounded edges and smooth surfaces.
Actually tungsten is slightly denser than uranium but both are very close. tungsten is ~19.6 specific gravity and DU is ~19.05.rlo1 said:Don't they use depleted uranium bucking bars in the sheet metal shops of the major airlines?? This is what I have been told. It is even denser than tungsten. I know it works good as a radioactive source shield and wepons projectile due to its denisity. - Ron
If the price were right, do I smell a group buy in the works?jsherblon said:
RV7Factory said:If the price were right, do I smell a group buy in the works?
rv7boy said:I kinda like the JT101 with the slant face on one end.
Don
mdredmond said:$300 Yikes!
I found a tungsten supplier and can probably get some bar stock cut up much cheaper. It would be up to each of us to round our own corners, etc... I have no idea now "machineable" this stuff is, but I think it's about equivalent to mild steel.
If we can get a consensus on size, I'll see about getting a quote. I'd personally love a tungsten bucking bar, but I'm not paying $120, much less $300.
Once again I am amazed at the knowledge base represented in here <g>. That link was very informative.az_gila said:Matt... it sounds like it's not easy to machine/grind/polish, but should be doable at home...
http://www.rembar.com/Tungsten.htm
gil in Tucson
SteinAir said:...should retail for just about half of what else is out there (around $160.00)...
Paul Eastham said:I'm curious...does anyone know: are these pure tungsten, tungsten alloyed with a lesser amount of something else, or something else alloyed with a lesser amount of tungsten?