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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION CHAP 1 - Hydro-Forming & Explosive-Forming CHAP 2 - The "French Olive" Crowning Machines CHAP 3 - Cowl Stretching & The Forgotten Artz Press CHAP 4 - Skin-Stretching & Wrap-Forming CHAP 5 - Stretchforming & The Draw Bench CHAP 6 - Pressing & Drop Hammers CHAP 7 - Faster Tooling & Deeper Draws CHAP 8 - Hendrick Motorsports Plastic Press Dies CHAP 9 - Stretching & Pressing With Reconfigurable Dies APPENDIX -  Book Four Contact List

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BOOK #4 starts by revealing a place that you can obtain EXPLOSIVE FORMING of sheet metal. Setting off an explosive charge underwater allows sizes and shapes of metal that quite literally cannot be produced by any other method.

Enormous interest was generated from BOOK #2 and the article on CROWNING MACHINES. In BOOK #4 we offer more information about the French/German Pfister "THREE OLIVE" crown rolling machine used extensively by the French car builders of the thirties. This section is new information to all but just a handful of men currently living in France. We postponed delivery of BOOK #4 to shoot a sequence of photos of this machine in action in France!

Another explosive chapter is a step-by-step color section from Hendrick Motor Sports involving their new technique of building a full fender-pressing die set by pouring liquid plastic into forms. Large PLASTIC PRESS DIES is cutting edge information!

Another chapter reveals a way that China manages to develop new huge body pressing dies in six hours rather than six months! And if that is not enough, all die material is reclaimed for reuse. You really need to see this one to believe it!

Yet another chapter shows how DARPA, our own defense industry think tank, has developed computer-configurable press dies. By downloading a surface drawing from your laptop, a press will then configure its own surface in a matter of minutes. Yes, it exists!

Most of  BOOK #4 is split between numerous methods of SKIN STRETCHING as well as STAMPING and PRESSING. Rapid methods for developing dies include a room-temp cure putty, gypsum, wood, and low-melt alloys. Wax sheets used to develop matching die surfaces is demonstrated.

Hydraulic presses, rope-drop presses as well as the CECOSTAMP are featured. We cover the post-WW2 lessons learned by men like PRESTON TUCKER, who in 1948 commissioned the full body panel die sets for his TUCKER TORPEDO. Preston Tucker managed to have the tools generated, and fifty full car body panel sets delivered to him in only 42 days! This was due to using the CECOSTAMP combined with rapid low-melt alloy body die sets.

Full coverage of the subject of SKIN STRETCHING involves our introduction to the secretive ARTZ PRESS, as well as the later STRETCH-FORMING, WRAP-FORMING and STRETCH-WRAP-FORMING techniques developed during WW2.

BOOK #4 is the largest and most colorful of all the books in the set, with hundreds of images over 242 pages. There are 33 full color pages. BOOK #4 ships daily.