Looking for a shop with a large slip roller in Seattle/Eastside

[preston]

I am forming some rocker panels and just need a gentle curve, preferably in a 60" long piece of .063 aluminum. I have built them in 30" sections using my wheel, but the wheel just doesn't produce a nice straight uniform curve. I used to have one of those Jet universal shear/brake/roller thingies but the gears got messed up and I was tired of having that 300 lb lump so I got rid of it. I'm really looking for someone with an industrial sized one that won't have a lot of distortion in it, the little JET/HF style ones still leave a lot of distortion in it, ie the center is not rolled as tight as the ends.
I figured if I brought in the blanks it wouldn't take a shop more than an (or 15 minutes) to roll to my template. I don't know any high end rod fab shops so I was just looking at sheet metal fabricators on the web there are a few around like JIT manufacturing, Allied Sheet metal fabricators, Acurate Sheet metal Inc. but of course these are all big industrial job shops. I will be calling some of them on Monday but just looking for suggestions on what would be easiest for them and me , preferably close to Kirkland. 60" wide woudl be nice but I don't mind doing the 30" sections as long as its a heavy duty machine that will produce a "straight" roll.

[coolwelder62]

I would get a hold of Gerg Weld on the forum here.He will have the equipment of know somebody who does.

[DBasher]

I can talk to the shop foreman on Monday (Hermanson) depending on how soon you need it and how busy they are they'd be able to do it. I've also used johanson mechanical for diamond pattern on aluminum. I think they're still in woodinville.


Dan

[rjsjea]

Josh Ewing.....Ewing Kustoms in Sumner

[preston]

Thanks guys - not sure I would be able to get down to Sumner or even Kent to do this unless I really couldn't find anyone up here. I'm gonna make some calls tomorrow and see how far I get. Right now I'm leaning towards making them in 30" sections as you can really get into trouble trying to trim and fit something in one long 60" section which means I really don't need that huge of a machine, sure would like to find some kind of metal former around here. Be nice to just know someone who could help me out once in a while without too much fuss, it would be nice to have access to a real brake too.

[Zspoiler]

There are all sorts of shops on the eastside.In Woodinville ,and Redmond .And racecar fab shop in Redmond.Remember that you are in Boeing Country. Just look it up on the internet.