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Comment on Shrinking and Stretching Sheet Metal

Tools UK — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:24:55 GMT

I love sheet metal work.In my college days I was doing this work in lab.I was doing welding,molding,carpenter,sheet metal and fitting.In that I like to do sheet metal.I have done cone.Very basic things I have done.Very interesting work.

Comment on Shrinking and Stretching Sheet Metal

Clark Olson — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:13:35 GMT

Sometimes a different alloy or temper will allow more aggressive manipulation of the metal. We use AK or aluminum killed (sp?) cold rolled steel sheet metal when making parts that need lots of forming. It works better than the non annealed stuff and much better than hot rolled steel. Aluminum is even more prone to tearing, especially if the wrong choice of alloy is picked. But aluminum can be fun. It moves very quickly. I made a mini chopper fender as one of my first pieces using the Eckold. Lots of shrinking along both edges of a rectangular piece of aluminum and the English wheeled the whole piece and I had a fender that was a tight fit over a golf kart tire that I had for the rear of the chopper. Thanks for the comment.
Clark

Comment on Shrinking and Stretching Sheet Metal

Forster — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:12:12 GMT

Thanks for the info, and I will keep trying with this. I just need more practice to get it right, not easy to keep the sheet metal from rippling.