Metalmasters: 32 Wheel well bead???

Have any of you metal fab magicians ever made a 32 Tudor sedan rear wheel well surround bead, and have the pattern or dimensions to do it again? It would need to have an inch above the bead and three inches where it folds under and joins the wheel well. The compound curve looks like the trick.

I don't have what it takes in equipment or ability (that's what she said!)

 

Hey,

I haven't done a rear wheel well bead/swage, but I have done a couple fronts for '32's!

As you probably figgered out by now, Henry, Briggs or Murray didn't use a 180 degree radius for the bead /swage. I cheated and used a standard bead/swage roller shaped profile, and adjusted for the differing profile with a ''t-stake'' a made up to refine the shape. I added up the hours I'd have had to spend at the lathe to produce the correct tooling and said I'll never recover the costs from the job! If I had several fenders to build it would ''pencil out'' to cut some correctly shaped dies.

'' Humpty Dumpty was pushed "

 

Bump...
I'd like to know the answer too but for a 5w...

Sam

 

Tim, (Irrational Metalworks) has all the dies for a '32 5W.

 

Sounds like time to: Go pound sand!
Or whittle up a hard-wooden buck.

 

Bttt

Haven't given up on the hammerform idea. Thanks!

 

Think I can visualize the patch you are describing, there's always the possibility of finding a 'donor' shape, trimmed from an old useless fender, then gas welded to a flat body-bead candidate sheet, where the fender well meets the bead.

 

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Is this the piece your looking for? if so Jo Kerr has dies made up for a pullmax and may be able to knock a set out for you.

He made up a set for my coupe. Check page 18 of my "Chemical City Coupe " album on my profile for more pics.






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Thanks DOD!! That's it, exactly! Except for a tudor.

I went back and re-read the whole thread. WHAT A CAR!!!!