Hand Forming Aluminum Sheet

Some are heat treatable and some are not.

Hand forming aluminum sheet.

But can be used on anything you might be working with that requires something built out of aluminum sheet. Resistance to corrosion varies. To get a primer on basic metal shaping we headed over to walden speed in pomona. Cut the material to size allowing about 1 4 inch excess material for trim and drill holes for alignment pins.

Remove all burrs jagged edges. Eventually i d like to tackle a new tank and fenders but obviously to start i d just want to. Locate and drill holes for alignment pins. Follow along as i demonstrate how you can begin shaping metal with hand tools only.

Some are quite malleable and others so hard and springy as to challenge attempts to work them. This reduces the possibility of the material cracking at the edges during the forming. Hand forming sheet aluminum requires a knowledge of the characteristics of this metal in the many alloys in which it is available. Place the material.

With a combination of these manipulations you can create anything from flat sheet and you can do it by hand. A person does not have to be present very long at one of his demonstrations to realize that he is extremely talented at coaxing flat sheets of aluminum into all sorts of.