Bumping this up from page three so the new info is seen by all that wanted it.

 

Thank you again for doing this thread. Your techniques of fabrication without a lot of expensive equipment is proving to be a great help in teaching my son to repair rather than replace expensive/hard to find panels. Inspiring even one person to learn new skills is worth your effort in my opinion.

 

More great work AX!!! Reps sent!!!

 

gfw1985 and christurney77
Totally agree.
I would drink to that.......but its -27 this morning!
Maybe later...

 

Excellent tutorial, Chuck!
That was illustrated and explained more clearly than most textbooks. You should consider publishing this in print, or maybe as an E-book.
These lessons would be valuable to any hobbyist restoring an old vehicle, not just old Ford trucks.

 

Thanks for all the good words from everyone. That one was a lot of work so I'm glad to hear it's appreciated. If anyone has any questions about anything I have written or other bodywork they are stumbling over, feel free to ask. If we keep this thread alive it will be seen and be more valuable.

Tony, As I am writing these installments I have to edit the information down so as to not choke the forum software. There are a number of places where I'd like to add more details, tips, tool discussions, alternate methods and clarifications, but a couple times when i suggested putting it onto a disk and selling it for a few bucks, the idea was shot down, free is great, pay for it no way, which has been very discouraging. The next section, metal finishing (taking out dents, lumps, waves, stretches and/or heat distortion) in a panel to true the surface and reduce the need for filler to a light skim coat (or none), is going to require a great deal of detailed instruction to get across and is the most important part. Because this is true, I have found very little on the internet covering metal finishing in detail. Most get it to this point and stop. I'm debating if I should try to condense it down/gloss over it for the forum limitations and reduce my time and effort required, or once again offer to produce a disk with far more detailed and comprehensive instruction/discussion and ask 15. or 20.00 for it?

 

I'm in for a disc. Great work.

 

I'm in for a disc, too. I figure, I'll save the price, in Bondo!

 

Yep I would grab one off you AX

 

OK then, I'm now encouraged and leaning towards doing a disk. Stay tuned.
As soon as it warms up enough to work in the shop again, I am also going to be offering my own design bullseye pick hammer. I have made a prototype, and both Gary and I have used it and think it is an improvement over the purchased one I have, and mine will be less expensive than the ones currently on the market.

 

X4! I'm in for a disc as well. Thanks for all the effort you put in, Ax. It is much appreciated.

 

Great work Ax. I would buy one as well.

 

Ax With a disc please put in the diagram pics and actual pics. This is so helpful to see where we stand as to where we need to be. Im in.

 

I find it kinda funny that the first time you offered to sell disks you had almost no positive responses and several negative ones.

Now, everyone is asking for the disks. Timing is everything.

I still want one.

 

I would definitely buy a disk.