Hammer Shrinking Sheet Metal

You have to adjust your mind to the concept that when you hammer on sheet metal with a steel hammer onto a steel dolly or anvil that you will expand or increase the surface area by thinning the metal.

Hammer shrinking sheet metal.

Use the hammers and dollies in this body and fender set to remove dings and dents flatten metal panels create outside curves and shrink metal. I have the metal fabricators ha. With a combination of these manipulations you can create anything from flat sheet and you. New tm 4000 floor model air power hammer.

The auto body dollies and hammers come packed in an organized storage case. It is one of the fastest safest hardest hitting and most versatile sheet metal shaping machines on the. How to shrink stretched sheet metal with a propane torch. Our range of sheet metal shrinking hammers is manufactured to the highest possible standards adding great value to your sheet metal fabrication activities.

I have a 73 that the previous owner had banged out the wheel wells to flare them. Actually there are several types of shrinking hammers but they all have textured faces and my belief is that that texture in no way shrinks the metal nor does it even help with the shrinking. Propane can do the same thing although it is a much more crude method. Forged polished high carbon steel engineered for precision metal shaping and maximum durability.

This takes away some of the stretch. Cut it bend it shrink it and stretch it. Propane takes much more time to reach temperature and the. The bulge can then be tapped down flat with a hammer and dolly to thicken the metal in that spot.

You also have to grasp the fact that you can reduce the area of sheet metal by thickening it. Dollies and hammer heads. Can anyone advise how to shrink sheet metal with a body hammer. After all there are only four things you can do to metal.

I have bought some zg flares but need to shrink the existing bodywork back to near stock shape to make them fit right.