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Shrinker Stretcher Solution
Big Oak Garage in Hokes Bluff, Alabama builds top notch rides with top notch equipment. Jason Latham called the Baileigh Industrial crew a few weeks back with a problem. He was complaining about tooling marks left by his old prehistoric shrinker/stretcher and asked if we had a solution for his shop.
Read More....Another Happy Mandrel Bender Customer
Baileigh Industrial continues its tradition of creating happy and satisfied mandrel bender customers. The latest mandrel bender to leave the factory is a Baileigh Industrial MB-35NCH-1-SD split die mandrel bender. The MB-35NCH-1-SD is a hydraulically driven machine, with hydraulic pressure die, pressure die assist; mandrel extractor and split die system.
Read More....Need A Faster Way to Shape Metal?
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…
Read More....Tube Notcher TN-400 Notching Solution
Can you imagine having an entire product line that required you to hand grind your notches? Every single notch by hand….hundreds of them….for 10 years! Having a backlog a mile long with no solution other than grind faster, grind faster, grind faster. Matt Legare from www.lakeheaders.com called Baileigh a couple months back begging us for a…
Read More....Tube Bender To Next Level?
UTV Inc (aka UTV Crap) is a leader in the UTV accessory industry. Their shop is full of Baileigh equipment that cranks out full blown production on a daily basis. Johnny Angal, the owner purchased our RDB-175 Pipe Bender several years back. Johnny has always been impressed with the speed of the tube bender and…
Read More....Different Kind of Tube Notcher
I have been with Baileigh Industrial for over 3 years now and I can still remember the first time I saw the TN-800 tube notcher. I thought… “how does this machine work and how does it come up with the eccentric path and a perfect cut every time it notches?” Well, after looking into it…
Read More....Cutting Edge Metal Working Machinery By Padilla Designs
Here’s some pictures I have of us using your Baileigh machines. You can see me bending a brass pool railing with your bender and then pictures of the finished pool railings. You can also see my brothers Ian and Paz Padilla forming a copper sheet mango tree stump on your power hammer. The picture after…
Read More....Rob Paul Customs
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…
Read More....Our New Club House From Baileigh
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…
Read More....Mike and His Power Hammer: A Love Story
Mike Smith popped up on a Metal Shaping Forum named “All Metal Shaping” www.metalmeet.com asking for information on our MH-19 Power Hammer. I contacted Mike and this is where the story begins. Mike is a true metal artist who has been making giant metal flowers for years. Mike and I started swapping metal shaping stories, I…
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