Metalshaping Tech article written by Ron Covell in Street Rodder Magazine

Ron Covell has written an article in Street Rodder Magazine (November 2009, Vol 38, No. 11) on "Low Pressure Press Forming. The article is about Low Pressure Forming that several guys have been playing around with.

Bob Haverstock, Paul Propst and Dave Propst (no relation to Paul) have been experimenting with different versions of this process.

 

Just bought the mag last night. It was the first thing I read. Looks like a really cool idea. Anybody else out there using the arbor press to form metal?

 

that article is the only reason I paid for the Streetrod advertising magazine

the number of pages with nothing but advertising is phenomenal

 

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/tech/0911sr_low_pressure_press_forming/index.html

 

Thanks for posting the URL.

 

They say that great minds think alike - I know someone who has been using this process for at least 12 years in England

 

cool article im going to build some dies this weekend for some cowl repair panels wish that mag would write more of these articles

 

Can't do it. More Tech articles means less pages for advertising.

 

Just read the article tonight, whole new way to look at my arbor press now, time to make some dies.

 

That was a good read.

 

Exactly what I have been looking for to build some parts for my '37 Buick.

 

One of the guys in the article, Bob Haverstock, will be doing demonstrations of his techniques at MetalMeet09 in Oblong Il; in a couple of weeks.

 

got the magazine-now just need info on making dies- anyone help here ?

 

That was a good article.

 

Thanks for posting! That was the best article I've seen in a long time about a topic everyone here can use.

Press prices just skyrocketed!

 

I didn't see the article yet but my old man has been doing this almost 30 years. He makes his own dies. Still makes dies, shapers and stuff to use in the arbour press we used to have.....now he uses hydraulic presses, large vises or sometimes welds screw-jacks to a steel table and uses the homemade dies that way.....sometimes when there is a second set of hands he'll break out the hammer and give it hell if it needs a little extra bumping around. Works sweet.

You can make the dies out of mild steel if you want to since they are typically a low-use and low/no impact tool. You can also weld/shape/modify and tune-up as necessary along the way too.

 

i saw an artical a long time back where some guy made impressions of the ford script logo in a 30 something tail gate with BONDO! the bondo was about 3/8ths thick.He laid a piece of 1/4 inch plate laid on top of the wet bondo he did this for both sides of the logo.When these 2 "dies"set he set them up in his press and stamped a perfect copy of the ford scrip into the piece he made he placed the lower "die" on a flat plate on the press frame then located the upper "die"after setting his part in place he put another piece of plate on top of the upper die and the ram.After he stamped his part he made 6 or 7 more stampings before the "dies" failed you can make dies from hard wood,Some plastics,body filler,Even CEMENT!granted you won't get but a couple usesom them but some times 1 is all you need !