and show you one of the must-have tools whether it's a go to work or just
general sheet metal fabrication
it's our shrinker stretcher what we're gonna do is we're gonna make a patch
panel for this piece right here one we can't buy a replacement quarters for
risk-free normally find any other so going to show how to use a shrink or
stretch Iran there and to do this we need is peace of 20 gauge sheet metal
sharpie tape measure some snips or peace to each year and our shrinker stretcher
let me see
so here we are this is the unit
so what you get you get the solid cast body sugar jaws and stretch your jaw's
to handle the allen keys and full instructions you can bolt this directly
to a stand you got your 38 16 threaded holes here
run bolts up to your workbench bolt it on there or I'm going to do is just put
it in the Vice here
this makes it easier for us an R&D all right here we go
what we're going to do first is this is going to be done in two pieces
we're gonna go ahead and build this piece here at a 90-degree use the shrink
or stretch to come into the radius of the rocker there and then build this
piece
general radius and then weld them together and across so we want to do
approx inch on each side
as we can use the hand here or Easter the electric chair
this guy's great actually fun to use to cut nice radius curve straight line
simply this
now we're just going to do a gentle stretching get our First Consul go
you can see it doesn't take a lot to start moving metal
that's the beauty of these things
go ahead the contrary got their check on the vehicle
all right change causes easy on this thing I want to remove the Allen bolts
removed the jaw
insert to shrink the draw and put around and this is the area that I want to
shrink right down there in fact i noted it because you can get moving along and
something hit the wrong spot and you got yourself a nice candy cane or something
else but it's not useful for what you need
so again same thing that will take much to move metal
you can see the compound curve
one SP
all right let's go ahead and do that piece of the same thing a couple
measurements
we're going to keep this one long what we end up doing is take out the spot
welds here getting rid of that piece but just for what we're doing right now
all right well here's what we got we got our panel just took to nineties on here
this is the one that we really care about this one's going to go on the
inside here this one we're just going to use for some forming and then later
that's gonna get locked off tacked on to this guy
so let's shoot this because we need to get that general radius in there not
just hang a flat piece of metal on
and again we're saying this is a great tool
I must have an application is just like this where we can't even even if we
wanted to buy that quarter or patch panel but can't find anything
so for the price of this tool a couple box
less than 10 for the metal we're gonna have ourselves a nice and
you can see what we're doing here
just bringing that nicely right in there
can see the panel which is then going to come down mimic discount store right now
this lip here we're not going to have to use we're gonna remove that we just put
it on there so we can get our forming they're going to appear or other one in
place I'm worked it
go ahead and trim that the fit
yeah