Nizmo:
Looks like you need about $40,000 worth of metal forming/bending/rolling/hammering equipment, not to mention a laser cutting machine for cutting out your sheet metal shapes. Then you have to build a newer, larger shop building to house this all in. (One thing leads to another. So said the Redneck who bought a new TV and an antenna to watch over-the-air TV shows and sports broadcast, then realized he now needs a roof to mount the antenna on!)
Granted, tin snips, a metal-forming hammer, an anvil, tool steel auto body shaping bucks and maybe some homemade wooden bucks might suffice when combined with your metal-working skills to "work" as well.
What you are doing reminds me so much of what I see on Motor Trend TV programs like "Phantom Works" or "Texas Metal" when working on restorations or modifications to older vehicles. It`s amazing when vehicle owners THINK that their vehicle has "good" sheet metal or under-carriage frames,but when the old paint, rust-proofing, and accumulated crud is power washed, sandblasted and/or ground away it then reveals the true condition of said metal works. At least you`re fixing/repairing it for the next owner and yes, it does not have to be `concourse correct". It also reveals that vehicles in Pennsylvania suffer from metal rot when driven year-round there due to the de-icing road salt. If you could only see some of the vehicles ,especially trucks, driven here in Wisconsin year-round, they are not pretty and some of them look down-right unsafe to be driven. And, yes, there are no state Department of Motor Vehicle vehicle safety inspections requirements in Wisconsin, so a lot of "crappy"(the Autopian software-accepted polite term) vehicles are licensed and "legal" to drive.
Looks like you need about $40,000 worth of metal forming/bending/rolling/hammering equipment, not to mention a laser cutting machine for cutting out your sheet metal shapes. Then you have to build a newer, larger shop building to house this all in. (One thing leads to another. So said the Redneck who bought a new TV and an antenna to watch over-the-air TV shows and sports broadcast, then realized he now needs a roof to mount the antenna on!)
Granted, tin snips, a metal-forming hammer, an anvil, tool steel auto body shaping bucks and maybe some homemade wooden bucks might suffice when combined with your metal-working skills to "work" as well.
What you are doing reminds me so much of what I see on Motor Trend TV programs like "Phantom Works" or "Texas Metal" when working on restorations or modifications to older vehicles. It`s amazing when vehicle owners THINK that their vehicle has "good" sheet metal or under-carriage frames,but when the old paint, rust-proofing, and accumulated crud is power washed, sandblasted and/or ground away it then reveals the true condition of said metal works. At least you`re fixing/repairing it for the next owner and yes, it does not have to be `concourse correct". It also reveals that vehicles in Pennsylvania suffer from metal rot when driven year-round there due to the de-icing road salt. If you could only see some of the vehicles ,especially trucks, driven here in Wisconsin year-round, they are not pretty and some of them look down-right unsafe to be driven. And, yes, there are no state Department of Motor Vehicle vehicle safety inspections requirements in Wisconsin, so a lot of "crappy"(the Autopian software-accepted polite term) vehicles are licensed and "legal" to drive.
Glad it hadn`t spread past the point of repair!
