Raw deal! lets see some metal work!!!!

The aluminum sheet is 3003 H14, and the thickness is .063. You will have to find a suplier that deals in all types of aluminum, most metal supliers only cary the generic 5000 series aluminum which is way to hard to shape.

 

that Willy's is amazing.

 

Dude, your way WRONG.............. that is excellent work and don't let anybody tell you any different.

Will you get better..............of course......................will you do one or two tech threads in the future...........you betcha if your skills get any better at all, if you don't, how are we gonna learn this stuff?!

Share your knowledge, dude, I may only be a "newbie" whos just signed up, but i've been lurking for a long, long time picking up lotsa great tips and putting it all into practice.

Cheers

 

Hoping to build my skills up and get better as I go. Have learnt heaps from this site and I hope the old timers (hehe) on here are happy to keep sharing the knowledge.

Just a few short pics........

 

man, bash'

us under the equator guys have to make the best of what we have.

not a big leap forward, but here it is.

 

This is definitely NOT a traditional car,but here are pix of my buddies '39 Chevy fender after an encounter with the rear tire on my coupe and while it is being fixed. The hammer & dolly man is the best we have around here.

 

Does this count?

 

Way outta my league too. Some floors I did in a 55 chevy.

 

Hey flatoz!

Are you finally going to make the back half of your '32 'real'???

Looking good, mate. There's hope for the rest of us if you can do stuff that nice.

 

Wow, thanks for the inspiration. I need to get back out to the garage and keep practicing

 

Deck lid I made for a Plymouth.

 

Yes, More info on the deck lid please. did you shrink the upper and lower part of the panel?

 

The car at least had the hinges on it so I started there. I used some 1 " angle for the outside of the frame and 1/2 " square tubing for the cross bars. I made cuts all the way down the angle to get the curve and then tacked them into place once I got the right shape. The cross bars I bent over a tire to get the curve. The sheet metal pretty much just needed a little tacking here and there to get the curve. I cut the skin just at the bottom in the middle to make it fit. Kinda like chopping a top. The last pic is after everyone in the shop and cutomers touched every inch of it , and the rear lower panel I made as well. This was the first decklid I made, I learned alot doing it.

 

Looks like it fits good. I'm going to try and tackle one for my sport coupe. I've made a smaller panel for the back of my sedan. I rolled it on my wheel with just a flat wheel to give it a little curve both ways. Seemed to work well. Thought about making the deck lid in two pieces. Not sure yet.

 

metal gives me WOOD!

 

Seen this car in person. It is cool.

 

That's a very creative use of lighting.

 

These are my favorite type of threads , I have done some limited metal work and its not easy. Being a know nothing newbie fuckwit i love seeing you guys work because i like to tinker with sheet metal

 

Heres a lil update on the metal wk. i am doin.

 

yikes that's wild! nice job jim!

 

after looking at these pics, I think I will leave my work on my hard-drive.....wow there is some nice stuff here.

 

I've been working on a late '50s Abarth Zagato.

 

This is some of the nose tin work being done on the Bonneville modified roadster we're building. I've learned a lot about tin bending from Doug @ Kruse Aluminum, Thanks Doug!

The buck.


The first part of the nose being shaped.



Some planishing hammer work.


Almost finished.....



Here we are at El Mirage for pre-tech inspection.


We'll be on our way to the Salt in Aug........ Woo Hoo!