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20 September 2019, 02:39 AM
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1921 Morgan Dollar Ring
A project I did a few years ago.
1921 The year my father was born. I started with a mint 1921 Morgan Silver Dollar and used my Lathe to drill a hole in the center. |
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20 September 2019, 02:40 AM
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Drilling the hole
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20 September 2019, 02:47 AM
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Constructed a Mandrel and Die, bolted the coin to the Mandrel
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20 September 2019, 02:50 AM
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Now for heat and pressure, like 100 times heating (annealing) and pressing. Each pressing only distorts the ring thousandths of and inch. A very slow tedious repetitive process:
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20 September 2019, 02:52 AM
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Finally starting to form:
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20 September 2019, 02:53 AM
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Almost finished
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20 September 2019, 02:54 AM
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End Product:
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20 September 2019, 03:09 AM
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Wow! That's an impressive piece of work. Well done
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20 September 2019, 03:21 AM
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Quote:
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20 September 2019, 04:00 AM
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ah pretty good double sided coin ring!
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20 September 2019, 04:14 AM
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Damn! That’s impressive!
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20 September 2019, 04:22 AM
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Nice work came out better than I had imagined.
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20 September 2019, 04:46 AM
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Dang! That's pretty neat!
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20 September 2019, 04:52 AM
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Really cool project, thanks for sharing!
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