Hi folks I'm after some opinions. I am in the process of building the Beam Engine from the drawings by Julius de Waal. The flywheel has a double thickness rim. I have built the hub, spokes and inner rim up to form the flywheel and am now faced with the task of making the outer rim. This is 15mm wide, 10mm thick mild steel and needs to be formed into a ring with an inside diameter of 200mm to be a tight fit over the existing inner rim. Would it be possible to form this thickness of mild steel using bending rollers? I also thought it might be possible to heat the 15 x 10mm strip and hammer it to shape around a former but as this is the outer rim it needs to be tidy looking when finished. I wondered how you chaps would tackle the job? Thanks in anticipation!! Malc.

Hi Jason, Thanks for that, after weeks of looking at the drawing it has just dawned on me that the outer rim is in fact 5mm thick. I really must learn how to count! 5mm will certainly be easier to handle.