Let's see some sheet metal shaping

now I need a pullmax. After seeing how it worked at Hopperstad's shop and on here. I know what you can do with them now!! I love this thread

 

Mr. Carson, and Mr. Nickleson, you guys are talanted.

 

Here's a few more.

 

Bugatti is sweeeet I love swoopy deco fenders! Nice work Man!
Dave Hitch

 

That is very nice. I hope you post more pictures.

 

Here's a panel for a '46 Ford trunk lid that Dave (who I think is a Hamber now) and I shaped out of 20 gauge steel

 

nice shaping!

 

heres my 59 chevy wagon in progress

 

n heres a coupe i turned into a extended cab pickup

 

that 59 looks cool.

 

thanks bobx

 

Any body got anything else to add here??

Here's one of my recent ones.

Shaped from one piece. Yes, it curves both ways

 

Nice job for making it out of one piece.

Here's my project. De-uglifying a 41 New Yorker:







Pugsy

 

Hey Pugsy,

Good lookin tin on the Chrysler...........................
Is that piece between the headlamps and beneith the hood split all made up of one piece?

" Meanwhyle, back aboard The Tainted Pork ''

 

That's some good lookin swage work, there! Did you buy or build your swageing machine?

" Humpty Dumpty was pushed "

 

It was made of 4 pieces until I had a little boo boo and cut out a patch and rewelded.
So its 5 pieces.
Fender tops are 2 pieces each and outboard of the headlights are a piece each.

 

Can you tell us a little more on what it took to shape this panel. I can picture doing it in two pieces but I can not wrap my head around how you shaped it in one piece.

I don't care if you did it with ten pieces that is one impressive panel!!


Pugsy you already know I love it.

 

I'm not sure I took enough pic's of the making of it, but here goes with how it happened (I have now finished the opposite side )

I marked out the curve & then ran it through my beadroller (custom made half circle lower die & skate board wheel upper) That formed the depression for the step.



Then as shown here, I shrunk the edge for the door jamb with my "Low Tech" Thumb nail dies. This gave enough shape to be able to feed it through the custom made dies in my Vibro Shear.




That then kinda gave me this. I had already started some shrinking of this edge to also give it a curve the other way. You may also notice a mark on the flat section of the panel. I made the dies to form the "break" for the later part of the process.



Nearly there:



Thats close enough. Now time for the next bit.




Yep! The next bit !!
As you'll notice, when I started the next lot of shrinking to form the wheel well, the "break" that was formed earlier from the dies, does it's job.



So after a fair bit of work.
Hey presto!!



This was one of the silliest things I've done lately
I too would have normally made this patch section from a couple of pieces. For some reason I felt the need for e challenge



Here are some more patch panels for the same job ('26 Buick)
Oh Yeah! That curve at the back was also done in one piece, with the patch for the back of the tub joining at the factory weld.
The whole tub had repair sections made for the customer, so with the door jambs to wheel wells, these & the rear one there is only 5 sepperate patches for him to weld in.

 

A little more shaping (more one off stuff )

I'll start from the begining.

Formed this :



With this: ( The only "true" radius roller I know of........Yes, I built it!)



Used the skate board wheel on my bead roller as shown in my prvious post to for the main roll which starts from nothing runs up the front of the valance to be 1/2" deep then it rolls over the top. it left a mark, but I will remove that later.



This shows the test piece I did first:


Then once I had the first part formed, I used the hammer form that I cast from an original valance. For this one, I made a ruff timber surround. popped a bit of fibre bog in, then normal bog & backed it up with some quick set concrete.....much cheaper than bog



Then I hammered..........er & hammered some more to get the end result.
But before I could finish it, I have to shrink some outer edges & fix some of the other problems.





I don't really have a good pic of them finished (this pic was actually for a customer of his finshed fuel tank )

 

Wow!

Amazing workmanship.

What do you mean by "true" radius roller?

 

WOW!!! Some incredibly inspirational work here!!!!!

The skateboard wheel is a fantastic idea. Been thinking about trying it in both the bead roller and also on the english wheel. Guess it's time to start experimenting more with skateboard parts...

 

Nothing like a pullmax

 

I agree with that
(while mine is not a Pullmax, the Vibro shear does the same thing )

 

Have you ever tried to roll a "true" radius in flat sheet like valances or running boards?

Of course it can be done with a slip roller, but it's not that easy to get it exact.

With my radius roller I built, it simply rolls to what ever bend you want while maintaining the flats either side.

I use either 2", 3", 4" or 6" pipes to roll the sheet around, which gives me 1",1.5",2" & 3" radius to a full 8' length with minimal run out.
Think I've got a few pic's some where??

First test piece:



90 deg.



180 deg. if need be (great for slammed cars needing a tailshaft tunnel)

 

Sure is handy - mines a Nibbler Medium.
There are situations though where a bead roller is better, especially when you need something quick & freehand. While reciprocating machines are a massive time saver you'll often have 10-20x (or more) the time in making up tooling & guides than in making the part

 

I also use a skateboard wheel with a grove in it & a tipping wheel to throw flanges, especially on curved ones (beats doing them by hand )

 

That is a nice machine.

I didn't realize how it worked until I saw these pics.

Thanks for posting them.