Taking a Metal shaping class in a few weeks.

70bigblockdodge said:
Okay I see that put in a vice vertical, one jaw on the piece and one on the wood buck right?
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You got it. It was the easiest piece to make.

For the other he had some home made tools for shrinking. They were made out of channel locks and vice grips. I will post some pictures later. The idea however is to make a dimple in the metal and then use the vice grips to hold the metal on both side of the dimple so when you hammer the metal it doesn't just move to another area.
 
Here are the shrinking tools. You use the channel locks to make the dimple and the vice grips to contain the dimple so it can be hammered flat.

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Zymurgy said:
I took my metal shaping class last Saturday. It was very cool but it totally messed up my routine, I didn't get to work on Goldie at all last weekend and feel like it has been a month since I have been on the forum, but it has been a week. I really like the first half of the class. I am mostly interested in what I can do with hand tools, and was happy with the results that I could achieve with just a little bit of instruction.

The first is total hand tools. The second is hand tools except the crease which I screwed up with a machine, but was happy with the shaping of the curve around a steel rod. The last is total machine which was fun but nothing I would be interested in doing in the future.





I feel total confident that can make my own metal shaping repairs now.

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Nice bead by hand. Someday I'll get there.
 
67Monaco said:
Nice bead by hand. Someday I'll get there.
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Thanks, one tool that he used that I actually recognized growing up on a farm was a hoof nippers. This was key in wrapping the metal round the rod for the bead. Here is an example it since most have never seen one, but you would buy one from a farm supply company.

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It's official. You're a tin knocker now. Congrats.
I admire anybody who has the patience to do that stuff.
 
My body guy just beat the crap out of the metal over an anvil, he was able to flange a curve with just a hammer and pliers. Some of the patches were formed in place by tacking it first and then working it with a dolly.


Alan
 
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