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

Before watching this video, I highly recommend watching this one first:    • Everything wrong with this Bead Roller  

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.

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