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Old 06-24-2017, 04:30 PM
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Ok pictures as promised

Here is a Model A fender the guys made in a class here at the shop. The whole outside piece was shrunk on the arbor press and the tail was linear stretched with a hammer on the stump. You can see some faint little rings on the top of the fender, that is where the fender was domed up just a little bit and then shrunk to meet the outside piece.
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Tested and John approved
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Here is a section of the midget tail that was made at the last Redneck Round up class, the top edge was shrunk in the arbor press just very simply and very quickly
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Here Kansas Jeff and James are checking the fit of the top of the quarter panel shrunk in the arbor press, Shrinking and smoothing only took about 20 minutes.
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The arbor press is a very over looked tool, you are limited on throat depth but if you can find a larger press you can do a lot of things with it! Another great thing is you can fabra-cobble all sorts of stuff together very quickly to get through a tough spot in a job.
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