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Thu Jul 03, 2025 3:27 pm

Hey Chris … On the subject of hand held air hammers.

Not to long ago I wanted to do some shaping on the spare tire well of a Ghia.

I modified my old door skinner that I no longer use to create the profile that I needed. It worked really well
….
One of my colleagues has a Ghia in his shop he is redoing so I shared the photos with him. Just a few days later he reached out to me because he come across something that reminded him of what I had done. Apparently a company has made something specifically for metal shaping/ flow forming that’s fits a conventional air hammer. I didn’t hesitate to buy them rite away. :lol:

Here is pick of the door skinner I modified and the job it was able to do with ease

The last photo is the new ones I bought. I already used one and they are great.
Anyone following along that loves metal shaping tools would most likely dig them. They have three different profiles.

Thu Jul 03, 2025 5:59 pm

Fixing things up…

The rear driver quarter was replaced at some point and we found some weld seems that needed to reworked.

Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:05 am

Mon Jul 07, 2025 9:05 am

Great job on that quarter panel cleanup. And the bumper mount!
:)

Tue Jul 08, 2025 4:23 am

^^^ Thanks for that, I appreciate it !!! ^^^
8)

Tue Jul 08, 2025 8:21 am

Nice work! Looks like it is still curved after all that welding!

What are you doing down low at the fender stud? It almost looks like the steel is molded into the stud.

Tue Jul 08, 2025 8:37 am

^^^ Thank You ^^^

Sometimes pictures say everything and sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s going on. :)

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Tue Aug 26, 2025 5:01 pm

Got the new heater channel bottoms for the Kab :D

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Wed Oct 08, 2025 7:39 pm

:shock:

I apologize that everything is out of order and doubles. That site seems to have lost of issues these days. It won’t even keep me logged it.

Thu Oct 09, 2025 4:22 am

Beautiful workmanship as usual. Your posts are always a good read.

On your sign in issues.
When you are on the sign in page. Enter your user name and PW,
Don't click enter or sign in before ticking the box that says, "Stay signed in" or something like that. Then click the sign in box.

If you don't tick the remain signed in box before signing in, you'll need to sign back in on the next visit.
I hope this helps.

Thu Oct 09, 2025 8:10 am

^^^ I have been doing that since 2009 :) ^^^
Thanks tho.
There is that and other things as well I have noticed that aren’t operating like the past.

Awhile back I kept getting a “error “ when I tried to
post in the forum.

I asked Ev about it and he said others were saying the same thing.
He ask d me if I was using emojis and symbols from my phone. He went onto say the he had the site underwent changes and some stuff isn’t working.

I say all that to say I feel like at that point is when I started experiencing multiple malfunction from how the site has always work.

I guess I could reach back out to Ev and see if others are having similar issues.

Sat Oct 11, 2025 4:07 pm

So many steps go into these support rails.