Homemade Sheet Metal Shaping Tools

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Homemade sheet metal shaping tools. Mig welders are easy to use and versatile. Cleco sheet metal positioners are great tools for race car builders body fabricators or anyone who works with sheet metal. I have had this hobart handler 180 since around 2006. They will weld all projects that are ferrous iron steel.

Clecos are designed for clamping two pieces of sheet metal together through a common 1 8 inch hole during fabrication. With the stump you will need a good shaping hammer it takes a pretty good whack to get a tuck into a piece of sheet metal you can spend up wards to a hundred dollars on one or you can go to a thrift store a pick up an old wooden bat and make one yourself. A staple of the home metal fab shop is the mig welder. This is my go to tool.

Home made sheet metal shrinking tool. This machine and process are also known as gmaw gas metal arc welding. This cleco kit comes with 100 1 8 inch clecos cleco pliers and a handy storage box. How to bend sheet metal without a brake in 4 different methods with minimal or homemade tools.

How to bend sheet metal without a brake. The cost of this hammer is 3.