Shrinking Sheet Metal Stump

Today i show a bit of basic metal shaping.

Shrinking sheet metal stump.

Big joe s guide to sheet metal continues words and photos. Professional sheet metal fabrication. I m new to all this but it s still possible for me to form flat sheet into some simple shapes using basic tools. Now i m not a metal fabrication shaping historian but the process of tuck shrinking a panel goes way back and isn t by any means a new process and there s many different ways to do it i m just showing one way.

And forget about shrinking metal. Building a new metal shrinking stump duration. So recently i decided to show everyone the process of tuck shrinking sheet metal both with my diy tool and a tree stump. 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.

In mechanical engineering or medieval chemistry would come in handy but are not necessary. The following excerpt comes from chapter five beginning sheet metal shaping buy this book in the motorcycle classics store. Stretching and cold shrinking wrinkled metal comes into play with the next tool you will want to add to your repertoire the stump. In fact heat shrinking a small reveal or bead.

I have identified 14 distinct ways to shrink. You also have to grasp the fact that you can reduce the area of sheet metal by thickening it.