help me figure out bead rolling

i was looking through an older issue of Hot rod Deluxe, and I found an article about rolling neat designes into steel for door panels and such. My dad was looking at it as well and mentioned he had two old bench-clamp rollers, and he gave me one of them. Soon i'm going to be fabricating some panels for my project, and I realize that rolling a good bead in a piece of sheet metal increses its strength significantly, but I'm just looking for some basic tips on how to put good strenthening beads into, for example, floor pans. help?

ccd

 

Several good videos on you tube or just get the Covell series-Great stuff

 

Want to see a tech that will IMPRESS?

Look here: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=501852&highlight=dies+firewall&showall=1

Not bead rolling, but certainly transcends that!

Then go up to Ryan's thread at the top on how to search and dig in...there are people on here who could bead-roll the Mona Lisa into an anvil...

 

Watch these two videos in post #321
http://www.gasserhotrods.com/forum/showthread.php?804-55-Chevy-Gasser/page33

 

Thanks guys!!

 

Let's see the rollers you got.

 

Set it up and get at it on some scrap. That's the only way to figure it out.

You'll quickly find it'd be much easier with a powered drive. Have fun.