Tuck Shrinking Sheet Metal

You have to adjust your mind to the concept that when you hammer on sheet metal with a steel hammer onto a steel dolly or anvil that you will expand or increase the surface area by thinning the metal.

Tuck shrinking sheet metal.

Dagger tools t dollies for metal shaping. My hope for you is that this new tool will save you time and effort on your metalshaping projects. This sheet metal should be of the same thickness as the metal that you will be shrinking. You also have to grasp the fact that you can reduce the area of sheet metal by thickening it.

Can also be used for tuck shrinking. The serrated hammers left and the dolly front cause minor shrinking when they impact metal. As the metal cools it can be quenched with a damp sponge or rag to moderate the shrinking. Peter tommasini demonstrates tuck shrinking during the metalshaping class at the shop this weekend.

Dagger tools space saving a frame style mobile tool storage carts. The tuckpuck name was sort of a natural. To shrink this edge the plan is to hit the top of that tuck with a sharp hammer hit so that the metal along the top and side surfaces gets crushed into itself before the bottom corners of the tuck can escape to the sides as shown by the larger red arrows. I developed the tuckpuck in april 2007 to meet a need of metalshapers as a easy method of shrinking the edge of sheetmetal.

Then remove the tool and move it over so the fork will roll the metal over the other side of the fork by twisting the metal the other direction. Cut a 2 by 4 inch piece of sheet metal using the tin snips. Dagger tools steel blocking and raising hammers. It s ideal when lots of shrinking needs to be done and you don t have access to a machine.

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. Dagger tools steel auto body surface finish slappers. Often called the poor man s pullmax tuck shrinking is another way of shrinking metal to gain shape. It tucks the edge of metal to shrink it and it looks like a hockey puck.

Sheet metal tuck shrinking tools dagger tools. The disc center causes heating and impact when it is rotated at high speed against metal shrinking it.