More post dollies

For profiling/shaping metal sheet

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Thanks Ken!

Thanks knoba! I've added your Post Dollies to our Metalworking category, as well as to your builder page: knoba's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

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Hi knoba, Do you put them in a vise to use them? I have never seen these before.
Also can you give an example of some parts you have made with them? Thanks .....:O)
Inquiring minds want to know.

Either vice mounted or hand-held.

I've been using them vice mounted with my metal horse to make new body panels, from 1.0mm zintec sheet steel, for my old rust-prone van (originals/replacements are no longer available). They did an outstanding job!

These 2 panel sections, shown bordered by white, had to include the seal profiles at the bottom, lower style line & original right angled joining seams for spot welding;

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Hand-held, they allowed me to shape & redress, in situ, the metal roof (originally entirely corrugated) to fit both these sunroofs, as there was no provision for them in the original design (I have a good collection of bodywork dollies, but none that would properly address the shapes the new roof openings needed);

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They're like mini shaping anvils. Great too for new panels, that never seem to fit like they should. ;)

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Wow That's great Thanks for sharing I love to learn as much as I can Really nice job by the way!!!!!!:clapping:

Great job on that bodywork, knoba! I like the solar panel array too. :)

Thanks for the compliments, guys! I love learning too. It's always impressed me; the unstinting generosity of other engineers I have met, that have given their time and knowledge so freely. I hope, one day, to be as good as any one of them.

Those lines are neat! Nice job. Mine would probably look like the amazon river especially if the lines are that long!