Panel Beating Aluminium Sheet

Beating dents out of aluminium sheet.

Panel beating aluminium sheet. Any way this can be done to in effect shrink the dented part back to the original size. 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. Form and shape sheet metal panels easily with these amazing leather beater bags. Stretching hot shrinking annealing.

Planishing is the traditional term used for the process of smoothing a rough panel. Straightening tempered aluminum sheets key words. Double stitched with heavy duty thread and seam covered with nylon binding to prevent leaks. Aluminum must be annealed to move it very far.

At that point the temperature is somewhere around 650f. Fill bags with pro fill beater bag filler material below or 9 birdshot available at your. Richard s datsunz lappin. 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.

Bag has 1 1 2 hole on one side with extra wide hook loop for filling and refilling. If it is just a dent you are trying to get rid of you can spray washing detergent on the dent heat the dent slowly until the detergent dries up and hit it with the cold water should have told you this first have a bucket of ice cold water ready. 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. Made of high quality 5 to 6 oz leather.

But none do any more than limit the stretch to some degree at the cost of beating up the work. The two magic tools for shrinking are practice and careful observation. First i coated it with soot.