Source For Sheet Metal Repairs

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PAmike

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Any suggestions for for a reliable and quality sheet metal fabrication shop located within 400 miles of State College PA. Specifically, I need rear wheel wells fabricated and installed in a '32 Ford Tudor.
 
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Inquire with local/regional heating contractors. They use subcontractors to fabricate and install all shapes of metal ductwork for heatibg/AC systems. Those fellows can be quite inventive. Proper gauge of shett metal important.
 
Hopefully the HVAC guys would use galvanized so they don’t rust out again. Maybe they’d use those self tapping screws for easy removal if they do get rusty.
 
PAmike.
Custom 555 Metal Works
Is less than a hour from you.
Donny C is a Metal master.
267-374-2462
Good Luck
Stretch
 
Ha. My mis-spelling of the word "Sheet" was not intentional. Metal duct fabricators work with a wide variety of metals and metal gauges to suit a project's needs. Galvanized sheet metal is used where there is high moisture content in the project's interior enviorment and air haandling system i.e. kitchen and laundry spaces. An advantage of a galvanized finish is that the zinc coating acts as a good primer for coatings such as paints and undercoating.
 
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There might be one in 1000 body shops that can repair metal rather than smear body filler over the dent just bolt on a new part. My dad was friends with a guy in the 1950s that built custom cars. He was so good at metal work he became in charge of the auto body department at Valley College in San Bernardino. I took two classes from him over 40-years ago. He constantly put out little demonstrations where he would give the class a fender with a dent, and he would have fender with a dent. He says go! He would have his perfectly metal finished by the time we had ours ground down and the body filler smeared on. Then he'd say, mine is perfectly repaired and it didn't cost me money for the filler. Since he was friends with my dad, he gave me extra effort towards metal finishing. I just got "okay" doing it. I got pretty good at hammer welding tears with oxy acetylene torch and 2.5 tip I'd got it as good as I could hammering, shrinking, grinding but then I'd put a paper-thin coating of filler on it. I figured that was better than grinding and hammer and dollying on it until it was trash. I used to watch Lloyd weld torn body parts together and metal finish them front and back. When he was done you couldn't tell from either side they had ever been repaired. I learned so much from Lloyd. He almost always used a cross peened Proto body hammer named "Ike". Ike had the handle replaced on him several times since the 1950s. Nobody in the shop was allowed to touch Ike, the head was polished like a mirror. I bought one just like it and then Lloyd reworked the crowned hammer face, so it was just barely crowned to prevent stretching the metal. I don't know anybody any more that can do that kind of work, and he was fast.
 
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