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Metal Bucket: Tapered Sheet Steel, Wired Rim, Bail and Lid
A bucket is a watertight vessel, a cylinder or tapered cone with an open top and a flat bottom, carried by a semicircular handle called the bail. Cut the side from steel sheet to the flat pattern of a cone, roll it, rivet and solder the seam, wire the rim, set in a bottom, hang a forged bail, and make a lid to fit.
The picture: a tapered metal well bucket with its bail.
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Instructions
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Mark and cut
Mark and cut
Mark the side as a ring sector (step 6) with dividers, plus a lap for the seam, and a bottom disc a little larger than the base. Cut them with snips.
Materials for this step:
Mild Steel Sheet2 piecesTools needed:
Dividers
Tin Snips2
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Roll, rivet and solder
Roll, rivet and solder
Curve the side over the stake with a mallet until the ends lap. Drill and rivet the seam, then sweat solder into it with sal ammoniac as flux so it is watertight.
Materials for this step:
Iron Rivets8 pieces
Tin-Lead Solder0.1 kg
Ammonium Chloride (NH4Cl)0.01 kgTools needed:
Forming Stake
Wooden Mallet
Hand Drill
Cross Peen Hammer
Soldering Iron3
3
Wire the rim and set the bottom
Wire the rim and set the bottom
Turn the top edge over a steel wire to stiffen the rim. Turn up the edge of the bottom disc, fit it inside the base, rivet it and solder it all round.
Materials for this step:
Steel Wire1 mIron Rivets8 piecesTin-Lead Solder0.1 kgTools needed:
Forming StakeWooden MalletCross Peen HammerHand DrillSoldering Iron4
4
Ears and bail
Ears and bail
Forge two ears from sheet offcuts with a hole each and rivet them below the rim on opposite sides. Forge an iron rod into a semicircular bail with a hook at each end through the ears.
Materials for this step:
Wrought Iron Rod0.6 mIron Rivets4 pieces
Charcoal2 as requiredTools needed:
Blacksmith Forge
AnvilCross Peen Hammer
Blacksmith Tongs
Welding Gloves5
5
Lid
Lid
Cut a disc a little larger than the top and turn its edge down over the stake so it sits on the rim. Rivet on a strap handle.
Materials for this step:
Mild Steel Sheet1 pieceIron Rivets2 piecesTools needed:
Tin SnipsForming StakeWooden MalletHand Drill6
6
The flat pattern of a tapered bucket
The flat pattern of a tapered bucket
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