Metal Machinery

Surprise Visitor to Baileigh Industrial

On Thursday June 23, 2011, Baileigh Industrial had a surprise visitor to its headquarters. Jackie Douglas, marketing director for Douglas Motorsports stopped by to show us the new 2011 Traxxas 2wd Slash, Scott Douglas Edition, which proudly displays the Baileigh Industrial logo. This marks the first time that Baileigh Industrial logo has been prominently displayed on what would be considered mass marketed products not produced by Baileigh Industrial.

Douglas Motorsports used many of the metal working machines that Baileigh Industrial sells, including the BSV-24 vertical band saw, and the BB-4812 box and pan brake. These machines help that to produce some of the fastest trucks on the TORQ® off road racing series.

We want to thank Jackie, Scott, and the rest of the Douglas Motorsports team, as they are a great asset in promoting to Baileigh Industrial. Good Luck the rest of the season.

Ace Clearwater and the Baileigh Shrinker Stretcher MSS-14H

Ace Clearwater www.aceclearwater.com has been building complex formed and welded assemblies for the aerospace industry since 1949. With 350,000 square feet of manufacturing space, they have a full fabrication shop with just about every type of machine you can imagine.

Chris McKee (production Manager) contacted Baileigh Industrial a couple months ago looking for a faster way to shape metal. He had a bottle neck in his manufacturing process and was looking for a solution. After talking with one of the many metal shaping experts here at Baileigh and reviewing Chris’ application, the MSS-14H Shrinker Stretcher looked like the ticket.

With the MSS-14H in the shop, Chris’ team has increased production x 4. Jerry (pictured below) is looking forward to becoming an internet metal shaping sensation. Read below:

Here is what Chris had to say about their new MSS-14H Shrinker Stretcher

We’re good to go with the release of pictures – this is our operator Jerry in real action. Things are working out great with the new stretching machine! Our throughput (in this process) has increased X4 with the use of the Baileigh Sheet Metal Shrinker Stetcher device and machine reliability is  100%. Let me know when these pics hit your web pages and I’ll tell Jerry that he’s become an internet sensation.

Thanks again!
Chris McKee

Starting out my career at a fairly young age as a machinist in a local converting equipment manufacturer, I quickly learned to appreciate quality tools such as metal turning lathes, milling machines, band saws, press brakes, drill presses and much more.

One of the summer jobs I had was drilling and tapping holes using a fine drill press made in Northern Europe. It quickly earned my respect as being a well built piece of machinery and when it came time several decades later to put our name on a machine we wanted similar positive design qualities with many modern day improvements implemented into our Baileigh Industrial metal drill presses. (more…)

Rob Paul Customs in Green Bay Wisconsin.

Rob Paul is a friend of ours from the http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ forum. He is a local Hot Rod builder who contacted us yesterday about some metal shaping issues he was having. Rob has been using an ancient 1″ throat “Lancaster” style, WWII era hand operated shrinker / stretcher that was very limited. Rob was frustrated. It was chewing up his material and he said he found himself spending more time cleaning up his metal afterwards than he spent actually shrinking the material. We told him to come on down to Manitowoc.

Rob came down to Baileigh and we did a little demo on our MSS-16F Metal Shrinker Stretcher. The secret to the MSS-16F is it’s tooling. Oval in shape and with a non-aggressive pattern, the tooling is unmatched in the market for a foot operated shrinker / Stretcher. Shapes metal super fast, with very little marking.

Here is a little video of the MSS-16F in action:

http://www.baileighindustrial.com/videos/shrinker-stretcher-mss16f.php

The demo was fairly quick. Rob grabbed a piece of scrap sheet metal and went to town. It took about 20 seconds and he said “that’s it, I want one.”

Rob has a full Hot Rod shop and is always looking for new projects.
His work will be featured in Rod and Custom magazine in the near future.
If you are in Northern Wisconsin and need some work done on your ride, give him a call. Tell him Baileigh sent you.

Rob Paul Customs
Green Bay, Wisconsin
920-819-8086

Some of his projects include:

1930 Ford Model A Coupe
1953 Pontiac convertible

Check out his custom English wheel he built:

If you have any questions about shaping metal, building or restoring classic cars, give us a call at Baileigh and ask to speak to one of our metal shaping experts.

My Daddy owns Vultures Row Aviation.
He builds and restores WW2 era airplanes for a living.

He needs to move some serious material when shaping the sheet metal and aluminum for the planes.

Here is his website: http://vulturesrowaviation.com/index.html

He has used just about every metal shaping machine on the market and was not impressed.

He decided on the MSS-14H Shrinker / Stretcher from Baileigh Industrial. It was delivered to his shop a couple weeks ago.

His sheet metal guy in the shop has been shaping metal for over 30 years and told my Daddy it is the best metal shaping machine he has ever used.

Here is a movie of how it works: http://www.baileighindustrial.com/videos/shrinker-stretcher-mss14-BryanFuller.php

As you can see……..my Brother and I are very happy with his decision as well.

Watch Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9jNkWXDBBY

Interested in shaping or forming metal?

Call Baileigh and ask to speak to one of our many metal shaping experts!