Panel Beating 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.

Panel beating aluminium sheet.

Double stitched with heavy duty thread and seam covered with nylon binding to prevent leaks. Any way this can be done to in effect shrink the dented part back to the original size. Stretching hot shrinking annealing. 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. Fill bags with pro fill beater bag filler material below or 9 birdshot available at your. You may have to do it a few time depending how bad the dent is. Aluminum must be annealed to move it very far.

If it is just a dent you are trying to get rid of you can spray washing detergent on the dent heat the dent slowly until the detergent dries up and hit it with the cold water should have told you this first have a bucket of ice cold water ready. Straightening tempered aluminum sheets key words. Form and shape sheet metal panels easily with these amazing leather beater bags. At that point the temperature is somewhere around 650f.

Made of high quality 5 to 6 oz leather. 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. Richard s datsunz lappin. Beating dents out of aluminium sheet.

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. But none do any more than limit the stretch to some degree at the cost of beating up the work. First i coated it with soot.