Homemade Sheet Metal Shrinker

The r d team has developed a pair of tools that use compound leverage from a handle to create the bends and curves you need in small metal pieces.

Homemade sheet metal shrinker.

Great for auto body trim work and door panel edging this metal shrinker and stretcher set is designed to create radius bends and contours in sheet metal. Metal shrinker stretcher is a metal forming tool. English wheel metal shaping iron tools metal fab diy welding metal working tools metal shop homemade tools sheet metal this metalace shrinker and stretcher stand is a simple design that gives a powerful pedal ratio for easy shrinking and stretching. One of the most common questions lazze gets is why doesn t my sheet metal shrinker stretcher work like the one in your video in this video lazze gives sug.

If you ve done it right this action will cause the metal to pucker on the edge and give you a little ripple or ridge. Our standard sheet metal stretcher and shrinker combo set is ideal for most diy workers. This sheet metal should be of the same thickness as the metal that you will be shrinking. Powder coated to prevent rust.

Form sheet metal mild steel or aluminum with one of our shrinker and stretcher systems. Heres some drawings of a home made shrinker stretcher for the jaws you use sections of flat files cut to fit and welded on the guy i got these from. Start by placing the sheet metal over the bowl so it covers the bowl and lays as flat as you can hold it. Then take your teardrop mallet and make one hard blow on the metal driving down and towards the outside of the bowl.

Sheet metal tools metal working tools homemade tools sliders how to plan drawings flat files drawing drawing minden. Basically this tool is used to make smooth radius curves in a sheet metal. Sandwich the 2 by 4 inch piece of sheet metal between the two pieces of bar stock with the drift pins slanted toward each other. Up to 3 in.

Cut a 2 by 4 inch piece of sheet metal using the tin snips. Will make any standard metal shrinker or stretcher a more productive and useful machine.