Good evening, more great info about sheet metal shrinking. Occasionally I use this lost art on current vehicles. Your right alot of the old skills are being lost to a can of bondo. Thanks for another great video. You take care and good luck.
I bought a little torch that uses MAP Pro gas and O2. IT works very well in shrinking the metal. I did both bed sides of a pretty bent up 1956 Chevy pickup. Worked great
I got one too and yes it works good but I ended up getting a big set of torches because I was going to spend more on them little tanks of oxygen then it was to buy a big set
Well there are different propane torches that produce a more compact flame so you don't get that kind of wide distribution of heat, so with one of those torch heads it might actually work. Oxy/Atcl is much better and faster though.
There’s really no end to how much you can shrink. You can do as many as need over a large area to work it down. When this was a common practice I remember sometimes having to do 15 or 20 on a panel if that’s what it took. Great question. Thanks for watching.
In my village we had fire torch like you but premier Bolka took it use on gun boat. I try hand fire but no work good you so lucke. Much happy. What name of book
I used to have a mushroom head for my Auto Arc (Miller) stud gun that would heat the panel up real fast and no dicking around having to relight a torch for every shrink. And, yes, I also have a couple of those relighting torch rests but this was faster. Also, remember there used to be a "shrinking tip" for gas welders that somehow pulled oxygen through the backside of what looked like a propane tip? Got one of those too somewhere, next to that spray leader filed under dinosaur equipment. I went to autobody school in 1976 too...shame it's gone but then not much gets fixed anymore and all the industry cares about is if you're fucking Icar certified! This is what happens when you let insurance companies rule an industry.
I have one of those tips for the stud gun. Did a video with it a few years ago. You’re correct about the insurance companies. The owner of the vehicle doesn’t have much say in how their car gets repaired anymore. Thanks for taking the time to comment and for watching.
Can I use the torch to heat the metal to cherry red and then use the dolly to push the dent out and then apply water to shrink? I'm trying to repair a dent on driver side quarter panel of a Honda S2000 and there is no roomm for a hammer and barely any room for a dolly.
I wouldn’t recommend it. With the panel already pushed in, heating in this position would push it in further and be almost impossible to straighten it correctly. Thanks for watching
I have a large area that is low, about a 1/4 inch. Do I need to push that out in order to start shrinking it? It had a bunch of filler in it, I have removed it all back to metal, I’m going to weld in a new panel on the lower area and I want to remove the low area as much as I can. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Yep. You must push out the panel before shrinking. You always want it to be high and the shrinking process will lower it where you need it. Good luck with your project and thanks for watching
@@autobodytrainingsolutions838 thanks! I’ll have to work on this one for a while I suspect, the low area is the size of a basketball. Im trying to video each step on my repair/restoration. Let me know if you want to see any of it. Don
Sorry but I don’t want to try and copy the book. I think a print shop would not want to do it due to copyright issues . I would suggest searching online for a used copy. Once again I’m sorry I can’t help with that. Thanks for watching
Good question. It’s possible but I don’t know for sure. Sheet metal is low carbon so it could harden but only in the spot that was heated red hot. It wouldn’t affect the rest of the panel to cause any straightening issues. Thanks for watching
