Re: new members here:) {long}

historical chainmail was cut with a chisle off of a mandrel. if the mailer wanted mail that wouldn't come apart he would cut an overlap, and hammer the ends of the rings til they were flat, and then rivit the ring.

Cyril

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Ian Wright" <Ian@i...> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ballendo" <ballendo@y...>
>
> P.S. Are you striving for historical accuracy? Have you looked to the
> makers of the "chain-mail" type shark suits for divers?
>
> Hi,
>
> I suspect not as I'm fairly sure the originals had the ends of each ring
> overlapped and forge welded together. This stopped the rings opening up and
> falling apart when they were poked with a sword point. The material was also
> somewhat smaller than 3/16" - 16 or 18 gauge wire. To get somewhere near
> automating the manufacture I would be looking at making the rings one at a
> time - cut wire to length off a coil, wrap it round a mandrel and resistance
> weld the ends together. The cunning bit would be to make the second row
> interlink with the first row and the third row interlink with the previous
> two before they are welded up. Then you are approaching real chainmail -
> each link having 6 others passing through it - two to the top, two to the
> bottom, one to the left and one to the right - all welded up so they won't
> pull apart!
>
> Ian
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> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield UK
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