Panel Beating Aluminium Sheet

Straightening tempered aluminum sheets key words.

Panel beating aluminium sheet.

But none do any more than limit the stretch to some degree at the cost of beating up the work. The panel can be stretched again imagining a wedge shape by beating out from the tip of the wedge and gradually increasing the width of the beaten area and the force of the blows up to the panel edge. Beating dents out of aluminium sheet. Form and shape sheet metal panels easily with these amazing leather beater bags.

Bag has 1 1 2 hole on one side with extra wide hook loop for filling and refilling. Fill bags with pro fill beater bag filler material below or 9 birdshot available at your. Planishing is the traditional term used for the process of smoothing a rough panel. Any way this can be done to in effect shrink the dented part back to the original size.

Aluminum must be annealed to move it very far. The two magic tools for shrinking are practice and careful observation. Richard s datsunz lappin. Double stitched with heavy duty thread and seam covered with nylon binding to prevent leaks.

With a cold rag or sponge put it straight on the dent a lot of times it will shrink and pop back don t put the heat in one place for to long or you will melt the aluminium. You may have to do it a few time depending how bad the dent is. When working with aluminium it must be remembered that it is a much softer material than steel and less force is therefore required to manipulate it. At that point the temperature is somewhere around 650f.

First i coated it with soot. Some prefer to heat with the neutral torch flame and rub the panel with either a bar of soap or a stick of soft pine waiting for the material to char. Stretching hot shrinking annealing.