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Re: Flanging tools

To: Peter Schauss x 2014 <ps4330@okc01.rb.jccbi.gov>
Subject: Re: Flanging tools
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:48:05 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Peter Schauss x 2014 wrote:

> What is the best kind (and source) of flanging tool to put a flange
> on a patch section for a front fender.  I bought a patch section
> for the bottom 10" of the front fender on my MGB and it looks like
> the best way to weld it in would be to make a kind of offset (flange?)
> along the top edge like this
> 
>             |
>             |  <-  Original fender
>           | |
>           | |
>            \  <-  Run a bead with the MIG welder here
>             |
>             |  <-  Patch section
>             | 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 

I have a pneumatic flanger that operates off my air compressor.  One jaw 
sets a flange, another punches a 3/16 inch hole for plug welding.  It 
works very well.

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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