Forming body panel profile templates

MP&C

MP&C

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Was working today on some metal bumping on the drivers quarter, so a profile template was needed... Took a 1-1/2 x48 piece of 19 ga and used the mag brake to fold it, then the bead roller to flatten.


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Then used the kick shrinker to get it to match the contour of the rear of the door, this will give us a close match to the front half of the quarter... (The hand operated shrinkers should work just as well for those with that model)


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If you shrink too much, no need to change dies, just shrink the rear portion of the template (away from the body)


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Ends are radiused...


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it's a lot of work getting that bodystyle to have a flowing straightness down the side of the car. From the factory each panel had it's own bow. Looks like you're doing some nice metalwork!
 
Never doubled up a profile gauge like that.. Not sure how my shrinker would like the extra thickness.. May have to try.
 
I like it better than the single thickness as it tends to hold its shape better.....not as flimsy.
 
MP&C;39623 said:
I like it better than the single thickness as it tends to hold its shape better.....not as flimsy.
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Very nice. Thanks for posting. I have always bent a 90 on my templates to handle the flimsiness. Mine certainly look crude next to yours. :D

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I'll give it a try,, Mine will probably bend it, but it likes to add teeth marks but I guess that is irrelevant in the situation..

I like the shrinker stretcher way of making a template much better John, but the 90 would give it some extra strength, I just don't like the idea of having to cut them to get a template, I don't think it would be as accurate and if you have to make a dozen of them for one panel I think it would take longer as well.. Ok Ok. .I just don't like the noise it would take me to make them this way over the shrinker.. lol.
 
Chad.S;39630 said:
I'll give it a try,, Mine will probably bend it, but it likes to add teeth marks but I guess that is irrelevant in the situation..

I like the shrinker stretcher way of making a template much better John, but the 90 would give it some extra strength, I just don't like the idea of having to cut them to get a template, I don't think it would be as accurate and if you have to make a dozen of them for one panel I think it would take longer as well.. Ok Ok. .I just don't like the noise it would take me to make them this way over the shrinker.. lol.
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I think the shrinker/stretcher way would be great too. I was thinking that if our lighter duty jaws didn't want to bend the double thickness it would work to make a 90 degree and shrink the contour into it. Noise is not an issue since I cut mine with a Beverly Shear.

The neat thing about MP&C's method is, they would be so easy to bundle up, save, and have for another job. A set of seven or eight of his would take up no more room than one of mine. They would lay flat or hang on a nail. Pretty cool.

John
 
punch a hole in the end of the templates and put on a key ring to keep them together and hang on the wall.. Just make to label them where they are made to read..
I run a series of dots on the panel in coordination to the template..

I also like the doubled method more than a 90 Degree, I don't want that lip in my way, I just like the doubled method because it gives a smoother edge to use as a gauge.

I have a baileigh deep throat so it will probably move the metal. May try next time I need a template.
 
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