San Antonio, TX:
Shaping Sheet Metal for Cars, Bikes, Airplanes, & Sculpture

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This 3-day class in San Antonio focused on shaping sheet metal to make parts for cars, bikes, airplanes, and sculpture. All of our classes are customized to cover the specific interests of the students attending that particular class. Many of the students in this course were interested in using the Air Power Hammer to shape parts, so many of the lectures and demos included “how-to” instruction on these machines. Hands-on time also included work on the Pullmax, large pneumatic shrinking machines, and time spent welding and brazing.

Class discussion

Shaping challenges of each student’s projects are discussed.
Machine set-up

Air Power Hammer basics and correct set-up are reviewed.
Hands-on class time

Students begin shaping their parts with the Air Power Hammers.
Test parts

Each student begins making test parts from blanks.
Shrinking demo

Kent demonstrates how to shrink in the middle of a panel.
Put your feet up, relax …

Coffee break and instructional video.
Hot-working

Kent gives tips on how to do hot-working with the Air Power Hammer and torch.
Make that weld!

Students do practice welds before moving on to welding up their parts.
Forging demo

Co-instructor, George Schroeder, fires up his large Massey forging hammer for a class demonstration for interested students.
BLAM!

George working his hammer.
Pullmax

Student shrinking with the Pullmax.
Q & A

Kent answers questions from students during a slide presentation.