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Old 11-16-2012, 08:29 AM
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May be someone who is on the forum tool rental program can help.

Otherwise I'd go and find some plywood off cuts and cut a step of the required depth into it with a router - or do it the old way with a chisel - and then shape the flange with a hammer. This method works best for a part off of the car!

If you need to flange "on the car" then make two plywood hammer forms with a step in them and then use a step on either side of the sheet metal with a G-clamp to start the shape you need.

You'll have trouble getting crisp straight shapes in mild steel thicker than 1mm though...

...crisper shapes will happen with a harder (steel) former - like the dies of a flanger...
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