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Rusty Jones
06-03-2003 12:48:00
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Re: Re: Making repair panels in reply to rossow (mn), 06-03-2003 04:52:54
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Some advice from an old auto body man: Get a couple bed rails from a sleeping bed. at each end are holes. Put a bolt and nut assembly thru one end, thru both rails, then tighten until you can just swivel the rails. Place the sheet of tin in between the rails, clamp the whole thing in the bench vise, clamp along it with vise grips and/or clamps, about 4 inches apart! This makes a sheet metal brake! Now, before you clamp the tin in it, measure and mark off 3/4 inch from the edge, on the tin. Then between that mark and the edge, make another one 5/8 inch from the edge. Now, clamp the tin in the brake on the inner mark,(3/4 in.) and bend the edge down 90 degrees. Take the panel from the vise, lay the panel along the edge of the rail, with the short right angle of the panel on the edge of the rail, clamp it at both ends, with the 5/8 inch edge mark on the edge of the rail. then carefully bend the tin down at a right angle. This will give you the correct "joggle" on your panel. This edge will be on the same plane as the bigger part of the panel. Some care must be taken when hammering, but it can be done! You should use 24 guage tin for this work! Remember, you must have a bunch of clamps or vise-grips to hold the panel between the rails. You can find those rails in the trash! Folks throw them away quite frequently. you'll have to take off the legs and wheels. Want to know anything else about body work, write me! Yours: Rusty Jones
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