Panel Beating Aluminium Sheet

Straightening tempered aluminum sheets key words.

Panel beating aluminium sheet.

Aluminum must be annealed to move it very far. Fill bags with pro fill beater bag filler material below or 9 birdshot available at your. Any way this can be done to in effect shrink the dented part back to the original size. You may have to do it a few time depending how bad the dent is.

Planishing is the traditional term used for the process of smoothing a rough panel. 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. But none do any more than limit the stretch to some degree at the cost of beating up the work.

Beating dents out of aluminium sheet. 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. 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.

Stretching hot shrinking annealing. First i coated it with soot. Bag has 1 1 2 hole on one side with extra wide hook loop for filling and refilling. All the panel beaters i know won t touch alloy there are only a few that will and apparently they charge for the skill.

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. The two magic tools for shrinking are practice and careful observation. Made of high quality 5 to 6 oz leather.