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Originally Posted by garyh
Great work Axel, when your shaping those rear wings do you change the size of the anvil or have you just used the same one?
I can see the scoops take a lot of work, what bit are you not happy with/ is the return lip.
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Thanks Gary, the wings were done with the english wheel, no hammering at all. I used the anvil with the most curvature at the beginning, and smoothed it out with lower anvils and used the most straight one at the end. I added the most curvature at the cutout for the wheel, the cutout was smaller at the beginning, and I cut it to tire size at the end after the most wheeling was done with the EW. Then I used the shrinker to bend it more in over the wheel, and smoothed it with the EW again. This process I did several times.
The upper flange was done with the shrinker/stretcher, and wheeled afterwards to smooth it.
Yes, the return lip was a pain in the a....still not smooth enough, the double curvature of the panel at all turned out pretty nice in fact...after some panels went in the bin ;-)