How To Shrink Warped Sheet Metal

Heat shrinking in this video we re demonstrating how to shrink the metal on a car door panel.

How to shrink warped sheet metal.

The condition known as an oil can is often encountered when performing automotive bodywork. You also have to grasp the fact that you can reduce the area of sheet metal by thickening it. Sorry for the poor narration my first. Mattm writing tech articles can be tough sometimes i need to keep it simple and concise to keep readers from falling asleep throughout the article as well as still being informative.

A lot of people think sheetmetal work is the hot rodding equivalent of rocket science. April 5 2016 by. 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. The sorcery of tuck shrinking sheet metal posted.

It can be described much like an oil can lid. Need a fix for oil canning auto body panels. In mechanical engineering or medieval chemistry. We are using.

Using a torch to shrink bowed sheet metal steel on vehicle body. There are imitators out there but the original was designed and patented by ken sakamoto of sunchaser tools. Also if you do this be careful. I have identified 14 distinct ways to shrink.

The latest method of heating and shrinking metal is the shrinking disk.