Panel fabrication
- Thread starter FlatheadTed
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rotorwrench
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I have a big thick top steel table that I set my bucks up on and about a dozen old chisels formed in differnent shapes to do the pounding. I had to make my own bead forms.
I had to learn how to do this to make floor parts for my 1951 Mercury cars. If I had unlimited funds, I'd have patterns cut from steel plate on a cutting table like Paul Bradley did. If a person can start in the center of those patterns and work out with locating pins to hold the steel, they could be finished quicker but it's still a lot of work and some welding is always necessary where deep drawn stuff is to be replicated. It would cost a fortune to set up a 250 ton press and make dies for it. I doubt if my funds would ever be that unlimited.
Pounding them out can be the only way to do them with limited resources and Ted's pan looks pretty damn good.
I had to learn how to do this to make floor parts for my 1951 Mercury cars. If I had unlimited funds, I'd have patterns cut from steel plate on a cutting table like Paul Bradley did. If a person can start in the center of those patterns and work out with locating pins to hold the steel, they could be finished quicker but it's still a lot of work and some welding is always necessary where deep drawn stuff is to be replicated. It would cost a fortune to set up a 250 ton press and make dies for it. I doubt if my funds would ever be that unlimited.
Pounding them out can be the only way to do them with limited resources and Ted's pan looks pretty damn good.
mhsprecher
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I am constantly impressed with the skills and ingenuity in the old car community. Quite remarkable.
FlatheadTed
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Thank you for the comments ,I did use to thin a gauge metal and messed up on one of the rectangular pressings a bit ,I will try and put up some more ,if I can find them ,