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Metalshaping – The Lost Sheet Metal Machines #5

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1	Patterns & Templates
Chapter 2	Parting & Perforating
Chapter 3	Joining Options
Chapter 4	Rolling, Folding & Edging
Chapter 5	Hand Work– The Earliest Shaping Methods
Chapter 6	Making Suits Of Armour
Chapter 7	Modern Metal Clothing
Chapter 8	Engine-Turning & Surface-Brushing
Chapter 10	Superplastic Aluminum
APPENDIX	Book Five Contacts
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Book #5 gets back to the basics with HAND WORK. One large chapter reveals the making of a section for a SUIT OF ARMOUR and the tools and techniques used by one of the best.

Information on the various hammers, dollies, and the mysterious “CAULKING TOOLS” are revealed. A lot of information on types of parting, joining, bending and rolling is revealed throughout the book’s many chapters.

The “Making of Metal Clothing” is an answer to a question that no one has yet asked. Included are chapters on engine-turning, the craft of metal-spinning, making patterns & templates, and an introduction to the aluminum Superform process. As always, historical patents, sales literature and full contact data is a part of every chapter. Over 200 pages.

Metalshaping – The Lost Sheet Metal Machines #6

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1	Coordinated Measurement
Chapter 2	Work Fixtures And Flat-Panel Bodies
Chapter 3	Drape-Forming Sheet Steel Bodies
Chapter 4	Understanding Wood-Based Body Structures
Chapter 5	Understanding Metal-Based Body Structures
Chapter 6	Sheet Metal Spinning
Chapter 7	Making An Auburn Boattail Body By Wheeling
APPENDIX	Book Six Contacts
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In BOOK #6, we make an all-out attempt to get Americans back into the game of building COMPLETE VEHICLES, starting with the proverbial cocktail napkin sketch. The best way to accomplish this is to reveal the types of surface plates and whole-vehicle measurement and fixture techniques. Then we progress to building complete vehicles much like they were built in the ‘teen’s and ‘twenties, with flat panels and draped curves.

The vehicle shown on the cover will be built from the first step through its completion. After completing a whole vehicle built with methods involving simple geometry, built with a coordinated measuring system, the readers will be ready to tackle compound-complex body surfaces from bumper-to-bumper!

Also discussed are the histories as well as the past and current choices of steel bodies versus wood-structured bodies. The answers may not be what you are expecting. Body bucks will also be featured, and again, there will always be much more. Over 200 pages.

Metalshaping – The Lost Sheet Metal Machines #7

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1	Micro-Car Coachbuilding Tools & Machines
Chapter 2	Tale Of The "Josie 56" Caddy
Chapter 3	Making The HEINKEL & Other Small Vehicles
Chapter 4	Types Of Body Buck Forms
Chapter 5	Exercise: Making A Motorcycle Chin Spoiler
Chapter 6	NEW TECH: Automated Cutting & Forming
Chapter 7	Peen-Forming & Laser Peen-Forming
Chapter 8	More Future Tech
Chapter 9	The ECKOLD Example
Chapter 10	Determining Your Path
APPENDIX	Book Seven Contacts
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A portion of BOOK #7 will discuss the smaller tools and machines that are used to build the small sheet metal scale-model vehicles as well as the HEINKEL 3-wheeled microcar of the sixties. WHAT FUN!

ECKOLD AG, their history and their equipment is profiled. Much of the book, however, involves future technologies like laser peen-forming and newer automated systems. The final chapter will conclude with and a bit of advice on possible future directions, suggestions, and general words of advice from a few of the great men who were profiled throughout the book set, and who are part of the last standing. 

Over six hundred entities in fourteen countries contributed to this book and DVD effort, which captures the historic overview and timeline of this secretive industry. Over 200 pages.