CUTLERFAB SHOP THREAD

Also got started on the rear seat area for the kiddos... no pinch points!

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Looks great.
What material is sheet metal (steel or aluminum)?
What tools were used bend the sheet metal to get the rolled edge?
 
Creekin said:
Looks great.
What material is sheet metal (steel or aluminum)?
What tools were used bend the sheet metal to get the rolled edge?
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.063 3000 series AL.

Outside and front, against the tube, I just used a rubber mallet and dead blow. Inside roll, I used a tipping die in the bead roller to get the flange started, but being there is a reverse curve there it did up the difficulty. There was much shrinking, stretching and planishing with body hammers done around the entire radius to get this piece to lay there with very little coercion from the clamps. Probably still needs a touch more shrinking and stretching before it's nailed down. To raise the difficulty even further... there will be a cup holder near the center of the reverse curve....

Of course I made a template from chip board to get a very rough shape.

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Creekin said:
Like the cup holder idea.

Some seriously mad skills listed above.
How much time invested into each of those two sections?
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That's just one piece in those photos. About 2-3 hours to get to that point.

The remainder of the rear seat tinwork will go much faster after those fender tops. The rest are sgl/dbl plane flat pieces; template, beadroll, brake, drill, mount... usually 1.5 hour per piece from start to finish.

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Jody Treadway said:
I remember feeling accomplished when I used a baking tin to cover a hole in the floor board of my old XJ.

This level of work slightly surpasses that.

Fine work my friend. Very clean
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Thanks Jody

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Had to do a shop reset this weekend. Having 3 units in the shop made for a slower pace with having to move tools to use them. .
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These two to be finished by Christmas, (Sam Wingett's and Travis Watford's, 3DB coming back in to complete through winter; getting to a clear shop to make room for my spring appointments); so efficiency was the main idea of this remodel. All fabrication tooling is now center mass, rather than rolled out to use or on opposite ends of the shop.
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And some photos of today's metal work on Sam's buggy. Working on the back seat tinwork.

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Looks good.
In the pictures above, there seems to be a pattern stamped into the AL piece that follows the contour of the seat.
How did you do this?
 
Creekin said:
Looks good.
In the pictures above, there seems to be a pattern stamped into the AL piece that follows the contour of the seat.
How did you do this?
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Bead roller

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Jody Treadway said:
I remember the days when @farmboy was content with expanded metal "tin work". Now he gets to enjoy the @mcutler level of finish work.

I bet he drinks 6 adjective IPAs these days too...:flipoff2:
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He'd probably be content with it now, but he should have known it wouldn't leave my shop with that shit... ..we're not 22yrs any longer, age with distinction... lol.

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jeepcj3a said:
How do you like the hand install tool for the crater maker dies? The manual bead rolling is just incredible.
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Thanks buddy.

The install tool doesn't operate with the size 10 crater maker, I use the press for that. Works fine with the 1/4- 20 size. Works extremely well with the rivnut recess dies and the nuts.

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Jody Treadway said:
I remember the days when @farmboy was content with expanded metal "tin work". Now he gets to enjoy the @mcutler level of finish work.

I bet he drinks 6 adjective IPAs these days too...:flipoff2:
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Bahahahah You are killing me smalls.

I asked for expanded metal for the record, and this is what i got. :flipoff2:

I told Matt this yesterday, but i honestly could not be happier with the tin work. Amazing job. He took the very small amount of info i gave him and turned it into something awesome.
 
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