Practical Sheet Metal Work
Automobile & Sheet Metal Boats
What
a book! Especially if you want to build an automobile. No, not a modern streamlined
sports car. I'm talking about those early chain drive beasts that competed
in around-the-world races off road back before World War One... machines that
might have appeared in that old movie "The Great Race."
And
this is not about engines or running gear. This is about taking a flat sheet
of metal and creating fenders, hoods, dashboards, curved seats and all the
fancy stuff.
Chapters include constructing the bodies and panels, patterns for bodies and dash hoods, developing and constructing seats and doors, motor hoods, guards and fenders, separate dash hoods, tanks and accessories, and boat patterns. (I guess making boats out of sheet metal is easier than pouring them out of cast iron!)
This is for the 1912 apprentice who wanted to get into the exploding automobile industry. You get patterns for making rumble seats, racer seats, French motor hoods, crimping techniques, rolling machinery and all the details.
If
there is any complaint I have, it's that this sheet metal attaches to
a wood frame which is not described. But wood working is a common art
these days. Fabricating sheet metal into these forms is a lost art.
And you get plans and details on building several types of small boats including a canoe and 14' rowboat.
This is an incredible book for the modeler, the auto restorer, or someone who wants to build a steam automobile and put it in a period body. For the rest of us, it's valuable in that it shows us how the sheet metal was worked. The lessons learned can be applied to other problems.
Rare info. Heavily illustrated. Wall-to-wall how-to. It doesn't get much better than this. Consider it carefully. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 148 pages
No. 22563 ... $14.95
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