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Originally Posted by Ryan in Melbourne
I was planning on getting a box and pan brake as there are a lot of folded edges in the GT40 chassis.
I’m guessing I probably need to get a bead roller and some dies, a shrinker/stretcher, some dimple dies for pressing holes.
Any directions on where to head for information or places to purchase other than Hare and Forbes in Oz?
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Echo Cliff's advice re Peter for handtools (Peter Tommasini Handmade
http://www.handbuilt.net.au/handtools.html). For larger machine tools at a reasonable price, H&F have some reasonable stuff - but they have some rubbish as well. I had one of their back to back light duty treadle shrinkers, but have just sold that machine and invested in their new deep throat jobbie. They had it on special last week for $999 NZ, down from $1400. It's a well built machine and initial test runs have been very positive. Part number is SHST2.0HD. Also just invested in just about their entire range of stake dollies - again pretty good value and not much to go wrong. I'll be adapting some of my existing home made stake dollies to suit their holding device. In terms of a box and pan, their 'Kleene' copy looks like a very good machine and would think from the weight that it would happily move 16swg. In terms of a swage, I made my own from a set of 'plans' from Tom Verity in the US and am very pleased with it. You have probably seen some shots of it in my Group 5 BMW build I have a full build thread on here under
http://allmetalshaping.com/showthread.php?t=12894
Definitely reach out to Peter who is local to you in Melbourne. His DVD's are very good, but you might end up as I did, talking like 'Con the Fruiterer' - Bewdifull!
Please post progress on here - Kent White may also comment as he helped a chap make a lovely alloy GT 40.