Metalshaping 101
This is a listing of various how-to and
technical articles and albums
Be
sure to see the tips and tricks from the Pros,
too.
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Shop Tip #1 Drilling tips.
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Shop Tip #2 Calculator, machined
surface guard, chip guard, tool holder.
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Shop Tip #3 Clearing valves, filing
aluminum, using and storing files.
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Shop Tip #4 Improving the
organization of your tools.
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Shop Tip #5 Using overlooked spaces
to organize of your tools.
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Shop Tip #6 Keeping your machinery
clean and misc. tips from members.
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Shop Tip #7 Tips from members for
organizing tools, shop safety, drilling and
tapping tricks.
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Shop Tip #8 Tips on sawing round
stock, dialing in your rotary table, handling
heavy equipment, quill stops, and auto-drains on
your air compressor.
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Shop Tip #9 Welding tips: TIG and
OA.
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Shop Tip #10 Shop safety tips,
welding accessories and tips, specialty tools,
and welding table ideas.
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Shop Tip #11 Helping "hands",
freebie materials, and hand tool tips.
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Shop Tip #12 Welding rod storage,
welding rod organization, welding aids, and
cutting oil tips.
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Shop Tip #13 Shop tips covering
RAVS, MATS, matts, knurling, and more.
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Shop Tip #14 Tie downs, winners,
drilling and sawing tips, and more.
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Shop Tip #15 Easy to apply
decorative finishes, alternatives for chucks, and
torque multipliers.
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Shop Tip #16 Loupes, hardness
gauges, using magnets in the shop, scribes and
bandsawing parts.
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Shop Tip #17 Fender rollers, holding
threaded parts while machining, finding the
center on round workpieces, cutting
slots.
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Shop Tip #18 Storing acids, surface
grinding without a surface grinder, cleaning
chucks, and managing dust.
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Shop Tip #19 Deburring stock before
machining, shimming delicate parts, lubing drill
bits, and more.
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Shop Tip #20 Holstering your (air)
gun, dry lubing to ease your cuts, stoning your
blade, and cutting corners...
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Shop Tip #21 Tips contributed by
Metalshapers Association members: curing the
wobblies, making holes with hole saws, polishing
dies, and more....
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Shop Tip #22
Managing the plasma mess, seizing the opportunity, bump
stops, and more.... |
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Animated Videos (Air Hammer, Helve
Hammer, Power Hammer, Pullmax, Hammer &
Dolly, TIG Welding)
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Patching a Hole in a Beaded Firewall --
Don Ross
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Tear Drop Bowl or Blister --
Mark Scranton
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Making
a Steel Apple -- Terry
Cowan
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Beginner Bucks --
Jacin Barnes
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Buck Construction --
James Bowler
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Making a Bowl Shape--
MSA Members
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Shrinking with Kent White's System -- Howard
Booster
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Flame Embossing --
Jacin Barnes
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Welding
/ Metal Finishing --
John Kelly
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A Visual of Shrinking and Stretching
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Pat Groover's Tuck Shrinking Demonstration
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Making a Slapper - Step-by-Step --
Corey Harder
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Tree Stump Preparation --
MSA Members
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Beater Bags and Stands --
MSA Members
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Building Front and Rear Wings --
Chris Knudsen
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Building the First Hotrod Stroller --
Corey Harder
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Building a Hotrod Stroller --
Corey Harder
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Locating Patch Panels & more --
Jim Bailie
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Wire Edging --
Jim Bailie
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Wire Edging V1 --
Ron Naida
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Wire Edging V2 --
Ron Nadia
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Making a Quarter Panel --
Jim Bailie
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Rebuilding a 1937 Ford Fender -- Steve
Hamilton
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Lakester Nose -- Jim Pendelton
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 Enlarging a
Mustang's Wheel Wells --
James Forgan
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 Chopping a
Top -- Kirk Crank
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Jim Bailie's Helve Hammer --
Jim Bailie
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Richard Ferguson's Helve
Hammer -- Richard Ferguson
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The Helve Hammer - Theory, Tuning, and Practice -- Richard Ferguson and Jim Bailie
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Jim Bailie's Custom E-wheel --
Jim Bailie
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CP 524-36 Air Hammer Parts List
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The Group Reproduction of the CP-style Pneumatic
Hammer!
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Slappers and Spoons -- Terry
Cowan
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Matching
Erco Shrinker/Stretcher dies -- Terry
Cowan
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Details of a CP Air Hammer Body
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Erco and Eckold dies -- Rick Mammel
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Shrinking Disk --
John Kelly
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Bead Roller Modifications -- Various Members
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Building the Metalshaping Helve Hammer -- Joe
McGlynn
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Sheet Metal Gauges Chart
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Material
Weights and Dimension by the Foot
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Ryerson Tull Sheet Steel Gauges
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Pictorial Guide to Basic
Metallurgy
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What Is Stainless Steel and Why
Is it Stainless?
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Electric Arc Furnace
Steelmaking
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Metric Conversion Calculators
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Tuck Shrinking -- John Kelly
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Simple Dent Repair/Metal-Finishing -- John Kelly
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Libert
Shrinking Dies -- Dan Pascoe
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Big
Guns Mini-Fest
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Ivor's Little Hammer
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Jim Bailie demonstrates rubber dies on the
Helve Hammer
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Metalshaping Classes
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List of
Facilities Around the World
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D&D Classics Metalshaping Class --
Mark Scranton
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D&D Article in Cars and Parts Magazine
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