The Home Machinist!

Saw in the current Hot Rodding magazine, they have an article on a few guys who have gone to using wood or metal forms and little sandbags in an arbor press to form curves in car/motorcycle sheet metal, rather than hammering it.

The article said that the process was "so new that there was not any recognized name for it", though I bet a bunch of people have found it in the past already--but anyway.

I am just getting into metalworking (haven't ordered any tools yet really) and wanted a way to do curve shaping, but didn't have the room for hammering, english wheels or planishing hammers. Apparently you don't really need that stuff, if your parts are small enough to fit inside your arbor press.
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Okay, basic error--it is not Hot Rodding, it is the November issue of Street Rodder.... <:P

I bought it and scanned the pages but they still end up pretty big....
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Posting the scanned pages is likely illegal, due to copyright laws. If you choose to do so, make sure you have their permission. If they are posted without an acknowledgment on their behalf, they will be deleted.

Harold

Well how about a couple photos? It's not really necessary to read the dang articles to get the idea, though it does talk a bit about the methods they use.

http://www.norcom2000.com/users/dcimper ... rking.html

The first photo is a guy who makes steel curved rams and pushes into a sandbag set inside a piece of pipe. The second photo is another guy who makes oak rams and pushes into a piece of hard urethane.
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If the article is available by link (from the original source), that is acceptable.

Harold

I know this OP might be a little old but i just finished my shop press and i have used it to form some 1 1/2" steel channel into some half circles for a street rod project. Just kept moving the metal and had the bed plates about 3" apart and the channel came right around...Bob

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Bob Wright Metal Master Fab
Salem, Ohio


http://www.chaski.com

This sounds very intriguing, please post pictures of your press setup and formed part from channel. Thanks, Steve

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A guy never has to come down out of the clouds if he keeps filling the valleys with peaks. S.Stube

I'm a friend of Bob Haverstock, he originally came up with the idea to allow a developmentally challenged young man help around the shop. In this way of shaping metal the tooling and operation are rather simple and inexpensive. He has published a dvd and can be found online. tt

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clueless near st.louis

The link to the above mentioned article.
http://www.streetrodderweb.com/tech/091 ... index.html

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Pat P in the Great NW.

Manual/quiet/slow planishing hammer technique?

Isn't that what Lazze is doing in the main video?

http://www.youtube.com/lazzemetalshaping

Is there some benefit I'm not seeing?

It's not hard you could do the same by using a hammer and stump, it is repeatable, controllable, affordable,takes up very little space, just one way of many to shape metal.

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clueless near st.louis

I've heard that Bob Haverstock has a kit for sale but have not been able to find it on the web. Anybody know how to get it?

I know Jerry Gulley carries Bob's stuff, here is a link
http://www.gulleyperformancecenter.com/ ... _page1.php tt

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