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Bodywork Restoration Tutorial

A COMPLETE COURSE ON DVD by David Gardiner
David has over 30 years experience and has written numerous articles on metalworking. He has also been a part time teacher for the Restoration Course at the Colchester Institute in England.

Years ago when I was trying to take my auto body experience a couple of steps farther, there were no videos and until the early 1980’s almost no written information regarding metal shaping. Now there is an excellent DVD available. David emphasizes and shows the basic skills that are needed to make sheet metal parts. He makes a patch panel (for a fender) and a gas tank; using just a few hand tools. All of the parts that he makes are with tools that could be found in most shops.

He starts out by showing ways to cut metal using different methods.

Next is Folding and Forming, creating brackets and flanges. He also covers Shrinking & Stretching, Creating Swages (beads) and Hammer Forms.

There is an Introduction to Oxy Acetylene (gas) welding; information on MIG Welding, Spot Welding, TIG Welding and gas welding aluminum. There is also information on leading.

He shows you how to metal finish panels, how to use a dinging hammer, make a curved radius, compound curves and do wire edging.

The DVD is almost 2.5 hours long and one that you’ll watch over and over again; I highly recommend it and have watched it a couple of times. His metal finishing techniques are the same ones that I was taught over 35 years ago.

This DVD is available at: http://metalshapingzone.com

Review by,
Larry Robinson
June 17, 2009

Here are a couple of video's on U-Tube, which look like segments out of the 2.5 hour video;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGElSHzm0q8#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQKu...e=channel_page

I don't have any interest in this DVD, other than mentioning a good restoration DVD; there aren't many good video's available.