You have to adjust your mind to the concept that when you hammer on sheet metal with a steel hammer onto a steel dolly or anvil that you will expand or increase the surface area by thinning the metal.
Sheet metal shrinking hammer.
Any time you hit sheet metal with steel hammer against a steel dolly it stretches.
The idea was that if the hammered metal went up it was being stretched and if it went down it had shrunk.
The auto body dollies and hammers come packed in an organized storage case.
Using wood you eliminate one of those hard points so the metal can move without stretching.
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Cut it bend it shrink it and stretch it.
Then remove the tool and move it over so the fork will roll the metal over the other side of the fork by twisting the metal the other direction.
Shrinking metal is a special technique and there are many ways to do it.
The best is to use heat a wood hammer and a dolly.
With a combination of these manipulations you can create anything from flat sheet and you.
I have identified 14 distinct ways to shrink.
They are premium quality yet affordable tools helping you to straighten any type of dent flattening metal bringing up low spots in sheet metal and to form curved surface.
Then twist the handle of the tool to twist the metal around one side of the fork.
Use the hammers and dollies in this body and fender set to remove dings and dents flatten metal panels create outside curves and shrink metal.
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The test was to hammer on dolly on one spot and measure what happened.
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Start by inserting the fork into the edge of the sheet metal at the desired depth of the shrink you want to make.
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