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Hi, it's Ray from Pro Shaper Workshop in Charlton, Massachusetts today We're going to do a little bit something different got a piece of 050
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3003 aluminum half-hard if you haven't annealed it or anything you got it on my big giant beater bag
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We're gonna hit it with this ball peen hammer We're just going to see the malleability of that aluminum very similar with the steel too
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But we'll just try the aluminum today and what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit it here and I'm going to hit it here and
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Here I'm going to hit it until it Fractures do you see how far the aluminum can be stretched
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It can if I'm doing it in one spot. It's going to only go so far
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But if I spread it out, it'll go a lot more but I'm just going to do it in that one spot
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So let's see how many hammer blows it takes Now this is a pretty good have to have the hammer. I don't know how many pounds it is
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But it's pretty good size hefty ball peen Trying to hit it in the same spot
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We do our welding test we hit it about that high before it starts to fracture
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It doesn't fracture on the weld it'll fracture to the side of the weld but
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Just show you the inherent strength of the metal No fracture yet
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Now I'm just getting tired No fracture yet
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Let's hold it there You can see no fracture That's a pretty good sized bump
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And I always say metal is clay. So instead of doing the two, let's just do the one my arms not gonna hold out for the two
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So let's shrink this back flat again I'll show you how we do it
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We're gonna move over to a flat table And we're gonna shrink that down now we moved over to the nice three-quarter thick welding table here nice and flat
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I've got one of my mouths we make Crunch those gathers up
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You can see we up about no a little over three of an inch There no fractures showing or anything We going to clamp this up We going to light up the torch We get this warmed up
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And we'll shrink that right back down. We've got a settling torch nice little Miko
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beautiful little torch Light that up Little neutral flame doesn't matter that much as long as we get a lot of heat here
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And I got my trusty snap-on hammer. I bought this in like 1966 when I was working at my grandfather's
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I use this probably 80% of the time if I'm using a body hammer. I love this hammer
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I think my snap-on payments are finally done. I just want to heat this up a little bit
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It's pretty thin right here so it's going to have to thicken up
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We got those little pockets that are open. We might have to hammer those out
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Otherwise they'll get too hard of a crease around the edges of them. I'm going to get a dolly just to smooth out those pockets
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I got my dolly. Just a plan. I shouldn't hammer dolly. I got a little machine tool holder here
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A little bit at a time incremental
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This actually right here is what you would do doing repass and chasing you create the volume And you chase it back again
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Looks like a demon's face there with two eyes and a mouth If you have little chasing tools you could really enhance that whole look
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Was hurrying a little bit I've got a few little pockets in there if I had taken my time those pockets would be not there
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but not bad Cut this with the bandsaw It would be pretty
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the same thing Now it wheel out we can wheel that out and it probably looks pretty decent
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Let's do that I'm gonna cut right now look at a wheel I'll wheel it for a few minutes and see what happens
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Let's wheel it out See if we can get this shine up
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Make a little pump there Oh See what's happening there is this is all
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Cold forging now back together and that all this stuff will go away in a few minutes watch this
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They'll probably pump it up a little bit, but it'll all go away That happens often when you
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Elastic stretch on a beater bag with a mallet You'll get these little stretch scars
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If you as long as you don't go too far Then you just wheel it out And those little stretch marks will go completely away
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And you can see They're just getting smaller and smaller and they wouldn't even be this pronounced that I taking my time
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Knocking those down those are residue from those little pockets Now this is typical thing you probably know when you want to get into the wheel a lot
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of people have to do quick releases I don't use them just go in at 45 even
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there's a lot of pressure to let you right in There's just about gone
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There's one little resistant one there. And the back side looks like that
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That just shows you the malleability of the metal. Metal is clay
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You can stretch it. You can shrink it. You can stretch it. You can stretch it, you can shrink it
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What you have to know is the limits of the metal. If you go stretch too much at once, it'll break
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It'll have stretch marks and all that. This I could have avoided
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I got two little dimples here still. I could have avoided those had I just taken a little more time
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in those first dimples and hammered them out if they appeared. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't
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Now, we could cut this in half with the fan saw. We'll mic this up and see what it looks at
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All right, so we're gonna cut it up with the bandsaw get a wood bandsaw cuts aluminum just like wood
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right through the center of where we stretched it out so much
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Metal display. Ray from Pro Shaper
