- 1. Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: "aaron atkins" <amatkins@qnet.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 03:06:58 -0700
- I just picked up a book that every car person should have. "Ultimate Sheet Metal Fabrication". It talks about English wheels and hammerforming, and all this cool stuff that will take me a week to dig
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- 2. Re: Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 06:31:47 -0400
- Easy? Hardly. It takes years to master the equipment. There's a shop not too far from my house and the guys were trained by RRoyce in using the equipment you mentioned. These guys are pros. They let
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2002-08/msg00087.html (8,753 bytes)
- 3. RE: Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: "Brian Hollands" <Brian_Hollands@adp.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:11:04 -0400
- Give us an update on how easy it is after you've beat on some metal It is a good book Brian '69 2000 Tampa, FL http://web.tampabay.rr.com/oilleak/ --Original Message-- I just picked up a book that ev
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- 4. Re: Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: "aaron atkins" <amatkins@qnet.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:37:36 -0700
- O.k, I wrote that first part at about 3:30 this morning. I might have been a liittle bleary. So, easy was not a very good choice of words. What I meant was that this an art form that I understand the
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2002-08/msg00104.html (8,089 bytes)
- 5. Re: Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark Sedlack" <msedlack@neo.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:52:30 -0400
- Fournier's books are excellent - I've learned a great deal, including some tricks that I'm using on my project. I plan to attempt a set of steel flares myself. His advice that often you'll make a go
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2002-08/msg00108.html (9,388 bytes)
- 6. Re: Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:41:40 -0400
- Take a silversmithing course if they have on by you. I took a few at the Fashion Institute of Technology, my alma mater, and I learned a great deal about moving metal around using hammers and bags an
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2002-08/msg00138.html (9,012 bytes)
- 7. Re: Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: SLBESQ@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:19:02 EDT
- i suppose michael jordan could make dunking the bball sound easy. or michael shumacher could make driving his F1 ferrari sound easy. the pros have a way of making the very difficult look and sound ea
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2002-08/msg00182.html (8,282 bytes)
- 8. Re: Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: Thomas - Sweden <csp311@telia.com>
- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 18:36:08 +0200
- I just seen a course "learn metal fabrication in just 4-days". It looks easy but the reality is more like "learn how the pro make parts and then you practice for at least 1000 hours before you are as
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2002-08/msg00184.html (8,986 bytes)
- 9. Re: Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 21:06:23 -0400
- English wheels are far from easy to master. There's lots of wheels to choose from and you have to select the right one. Pressure on the wheels also plays a big part. Pros at whatever they do make it
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2002-08/msg00211.html (9,369 bytes)
- 10. Re: Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 21:07:48 -0400
- They also make $$$$ selling the books. If they made it sound difficult no one would buy the book :) Mike amatkins@qnet.com Sheet and realized sound the michael way /// datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
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- 11. Re: Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: "Fred Schroeder" <roadster@texoma.net>
- Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 00:47:28 -0500
- plays Not to mention the medical bills/pain of mashed or crushed fingers and thumbs! Best regards, Fred Schroeder '70 2000 SRL311-13359 TDROC Home page http://home.texoma.net/~sitsinwest/ /// datsun
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2002-08/msg00222.html (7,863 bytes)
- 12. Re: Metal working (score: 1)
- Author: mtyler <mtyler@hctc.net>
- Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 15:00:47 -0500
- I bought that book as well...and they do make it look easy. I've had some luck with aluminum, but steel is a bear! -Marc T. == Marc Tyler Sisterdale TX 1970 1600 #SPL311-31016 1965 L-320 #L320 013642
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