Metal Shrinking Tool: Car Restoration Tips

"Hi, I'm Doug I work with 20 great guys in Saint Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we are going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. In order to get the piece shaped exactly right, Alex is using a tool that we have; one for shrinking and one for stretching steel. Your little press here compact the steel on the inside radius of the cut and the other tool of the other tool would expand. It has teeth in there that would pull little bits of the steel and smash it in so it can make the curve. It makes the steel thicker when you shrink it and it makes it thinner when you stretch it. Now he has it pretty well matched, he has the shape right and it is time to weld it in to, actually to finish up the edges. Then prime it and then weld it in."