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Some basic metalshaping…. making a vent bracket for under the dash using a hammer and piece of pipe. Excuse the audio quality at the start, what you get for filming with an iPhone 6S. S stands for SUCKS... apparently the phone gets confused as to which of 3 microphones to use. We filmed the rest with a different phone..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrLanHAqaaY
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Great work Robert! and a very nice job explaining what you're doing to 'we novices'... :)
... also shows what one can do with a variety of thick wall pipe ... :)
Hi Robert,
A pipe and a hammer to create a fairly complex shape - thanks for showing the technique! I always learn something new from your posts!
Thanks, Doug
Thanks for the comments guys! I had a question on another site on the whys and hows… too good not to share here as well...
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Nice show and tell on that Robert... just curious , why not just weld the face to the 2nd piece without tipping the edge over..then dressing the corners..
Greg, EXCELLENT question!!!!
When you place a weld on a corner, and for an example, lets say we are patching a lower fender right up to the door opening to repair some rust at the bottom of the fender.... you lose the ability to control the two perpendicular sides. Let's say you blow a hole and have to re-weld in a spot or two. Or things just get too hot, period. The heat and shrinking is bound to pull at the weld, and now you are pulling inward in two directions. The weld seam directly in the corner makes it near impossible to planish. So you'll find that in addition to having low spots on the outer surface, you also have altered the door to fender GAP with little hope of fixing it without filler.. By shaping your panel as you want it, and then tipping a flange that carries the seam into the perpendicular side, the crease helps to hold things from moving. And with the weld seam far enough away from the corner that you can hammer and dolly, any distortion can be corrected. With the brackets we made Saturday, this was easy as we just used the pipe once again, this time as a dolly/anvil to planish the TIG weld once completed.