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Old 08-31-2009, 06:35 PM
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Default Who prefers tuck shrinking?

For those of you who know me, I decided that I preferred stump shrinking over tuck shrinking. Never the less I have practiced both methods.

Tonight when I got home, I thought hell I'm going to clean the shop (it's a mess ). Then I noticed my tucking forks were getting all rusty. So I sprayed it down and sanded the rust off. Then I noticed a piece of scrap metal,so I figured might as well get some practice in and tuck shrink the edge and snap a few photos. Really I was just trying to talk myself out of cleaning the shop

I don't tuck shrink very often and what I realized is, that it's because it's so much more work than stump shrinking.

I have to work the tucks inside out, I would prefer to work them from the outside but I just don't have a post dolly good enough for it.

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That was one round of tuck shrinking. I could have cleaned it up but what's the point.

What I do when I tuck shrink is, I start from the rear and work my way forward. I take swift hits alternating sides to I reach the mouth of the tuck. I have tried it several different ways but this seems to work the best for me.

So what I am curious about is, who prefers tuck shrinking? Also how do you tuck shrink?
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