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Nov 14, 2012 10:20:19 GMT
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I have just seen a youtube film of a guy making a rear side panel out of a flat sheet of steel.I watched the link on a ford truck web site.Here is the web address as i don't no how to link link it. www.handbuilt.net.au go to the bottom of the page and click youtube and then click the link.Sorry about this i am not that good with pc.But well worth it |
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Seth
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Nov 14, 2012 10:21:45 GMT
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Stunning work.
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Last Edit: Nov 14, 2012 10:36:04 GMT by Seth
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Nov 14, 2012 10:37:55 GMT
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top skills
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Nov 14, 2012 12:04:14 GMT
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Wow.
Do people still get taught such skills in the UK or is it a dying art ?
Paul h
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Nov 14, 2012 12:19:39 GMT
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There's a reason why it's a dying art! That panel cost several thousand dollars in labour. Absolutely beautiful workmanship though.
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Nov 14, 2012 12:31:13 GMT
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Thanks for putting the link on.Just shows you anythink possible,
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Clement
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Nov 14, 2012 12:42:28 GMT
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Just beautiful. Makes you feel like anything is possible.
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Copey
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Nov 14, 2012 13:03:56 GMT
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no doubt its impressive, but did the guy make two? it showed the guy makin a pannel for the offside and then showed the fitted one on the near side...
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Nov 14, 2012 22:49:45 GMT
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i noticed that too, but tbh i'd have ballsed up cuttint the panel the right size let alone anything else!
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Seth
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Nov 14, 2012 23:00:57 GMT
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I presume he did make the pair and they only thought to film it after he'd made the first one. Wow. Do people still get taught such skills in the UK or is it a dying art ? Paul h I know there's a couple of places at least over here that could do this sort of panel work but whether there are 'youngun's' being taught I'm not sure. There will always be a market for the work though. |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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chevazon
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Nov 14, 2012 23:07:13 GMT
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Blokes in Cuba do it all the time !
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Nov 14, 2012 23:15:33 GMT
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AMAZING
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dw1603
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Nov 14, 2012 23:20:59 GMT
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I'd never considered a 2 1/2 lb ball pein hammer a precision instrument before! Outstanding work
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mrx
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Nov 14, 2012 23:39:49 GMT
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Blokes in Cuba do it all the time ! and starting with corrugated |
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oxb1l
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I served my time as a sheetmetal worker and was only ever encouraged to use hydraulic machines and punches etc I made better stuff for homers than I did for my work although nothing to that size or standard I've only ever met one man with skills as above and he's in Ireland and retired Nowadays metalworkers are CNC operators  Shame really |
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Need a bigger garage !
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fred
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If I could live my life again,
I would enter that trade at 16,
Unfortunatly I was slack and ended up as the above -
CNC Setter :-(
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stefan
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wish I could do that!
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There is a place down in Molsey Surrey that repair's old Aston's, you know DB's, Zegato's and the like, last time i was there i was dry fitting a windscreen into a Zegato that had been bent on a posh track day, the car was in a really bad mess having had the front end almost torn off, but the guy's took their time and rebuilt the whole front end and some rear damage too, the dry run on the screen was no problem at all which is always a good sign, one side of the workshop had rollers and everything you could need for remaking this kind of car bodywork, they knocked up a whole new front end from Just sheet Ali and a pile of tubes, the body repair alone came to tens of thousands of pounds but when the car is worth £1.2 million i suppose it does not really matter, truly unbelievable workmanship.
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MK2 Cortina Estate
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