Shrinking a cab-corner replacement piece I welded in, because the purchased stamped-steel didn’t match my belly-pan’s shape nearly close enough. I shot this video in an instructional way for a friend of mine, to highlight how I can move metal around. I sped this 1.5-hour video into a 5-minute overview if you just want to see the highlights…
See: https://youtu.be/1s4Ja1IN_Tw
In this video, I pull-in a convex area the size of a grapefruit, into the flattened shape I need on my cab (because my suspension is bagged, and I need the cab-corner flat when slammed to the ground). This area of my cab is impossible to get a dolly behind or hammer back out, so it’s a good illustration of how to shrink when you can’t be too aggressive. I could have been even-more aggressive with shrinking if this were a fender or other exposed panel. It’s worth noting that those mechanical shrinker/stretcher tools couldn’t begin to access this area or shrink this much…
Post time: Jul-05-2017