Part two : showing the process of making a motorcycle fender.
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Okay, all right, so now we have the piece all cleaned up with the lacquer fender all the asphalt residues off
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And now the question is we want to planish this out in a process of making a fender like this
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You don't want to do it all in one go you want to do it in stages in a fender
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Typically, I would do it in three stages. You might be able to get in two but three would be a better
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method so the Typical is what everybody would try to do is wheel it this way
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And if you wheel it this way, of course you can't get on the sides
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And you're gonna have to use a real high crown wheel and on it to wheel it that way
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Unless you take it out of arrangement so this is sort of like the the big trick and and shaping sheet metal is being able to
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change your arrangement Just like a piece of paper can be changed in arrangement a million different ways metal can be too
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Arrangement is nothing more than bending so what we're gonna do is put this into the curl arrangement
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And we got a little Bug there we squash him down Like
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Squashes down always try to use a blanket or some soft surface on your bench so you don't scratch up your aluminum all bad
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so Knock those edges down a little more
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Bring that around And you can do half of it at a time. You don't have to get the whole thing in the curl arrangement
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so Here we got say the front half and the back half is still semi curled
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So now when we do that you see This had a radius of this value. Now you have a very
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Almost flat radius a low crown radius right here so we can use a wheel that doesn't have a lot of
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to it not the advantages If you use a high crown wheel your contact area is going to be very very narrow
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And it's going to make a lot of wheel marks So what we doing now is we just going to knock all these Lumps and out and smooth this up
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Now the hobbit freight wheel is really not a real stiff wheel you can add
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Stiffness to it by strengthening up the backbone It'll make it a little bit better. I
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intend to Possibly offer another stifter stiffening kit Later on
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But you can't get good results out of it just the way it is here We're knocking these walnuts down
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I just do half one half of the fender And now we're going to
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Induce the curl a little bit by pulling down when I pull out of the wheels
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That flattens it out Now Now let me put a lower crown wheel in here and easily pop this up change the wheel out
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This one's got a pretty pretty low crown With the kit now
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It's really easy to operate the The adjuster and you can set your contact area with
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These adjusters here on the bottom So that your contact area is right in the center of the anvil
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Right now I running right dead in the center turn these little quarter bolts on the bottom And it will adjust the yokes attitude relative to the top wheel So now we got a
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Flatter wheel and there will get a little bit wider contact area We'll get a nice finish
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Now we don't want to wheel too much on the side just enough to knock those shrunk areas down
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When we wheel in the center Will actually help make the fender that'll stretch out the center a little bit. So that's advantageous
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But on the edges only a little bit So wheel this up a little
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Now this is a real good example again, I got it in this curl
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Arrangement and if you see this is going to come around and
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Formally the adjuster would be there. So that'd be fouling on that adjuster every time it came around
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I'm going to work this fender in a really Flat way the curl
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And you can see now the panel after a few minutes of wheeling is starting to get
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The shine of the top wheel printed on it So it'll shine right up
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Looks like it's buffed It's actually just an impression of the top wheel and did a YouTube video. I
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Don't know a couple weeks ago. We could a couple days ago. I think Showing how to polish your anvils and your top wheel real simple method
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It's on my YouTube channel. Just look on the pro shaper. You'll find it. I had a bunch of other videos there, too
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Let's start doing Maybe a video a week or so Different items of interest in coach building
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You can see that was just a couple minutes now Let's see what we got. It doesn't look like a motorcycle fender. It's still rough on this side. We haven't done it
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We haven't smoothed it out. This side is close. So now we're going to set the arrangement
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Back the way it wants to be As you set the arrangement
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you can see we got a A good arc started here, but this is only stage one and making this fender
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Like I said you do it in stages. Otherwise, you're asking the metal to do too much. So
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Now we put this back in the shrinking facilitator shrink another round on the edges
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They'll pop up in Spots that there were already not sure that would that were
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Never not shrunk yet in between the spots that were shrunk if you look close
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You can see this little residue of the shrink still there That'll all come out eventually
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That's thickened the metals thickened there. We're going to be stretching this metal and thinning this metal here and
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After about three applications of this process which will take a minute an hour or so
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Isn't of one we did earlier same system same shrinking facilitator And that's got the right finish diameter. This one isn't totally finished. It needs a little planishing on the edge
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But you can see it's a really nice job Shined up nice and
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Anybody can do this it just takes a little effort to do it So that's all we're gonna do tonight. Thank you
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You can find all this the tools at that I used at my website
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Pro shaper comm it's racially and thank you
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