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[jimthehammer]

Hi all, my name is Jim and i am a panel beater from lincoln lincolnshire. I work on my own from home,repairing, restoring and making replica classic racing cars. i work mainly with aluminium or magnessium. If anyone needs any advise drop a line ive been in this game for ever lol, cheers

[ekdave1962]

wow Jim sound like you have a world of experience to share .. please post some pic and descriptions of your work

[skintkarter]

Yes please post some pics Jim - even though you are from Lincolnshire (transplanted ex Yorkshireman)

[Peter Tommasini]

Hi Jim welcome to the forum
Peter

[jimthehammer]

image.jpgIve uploaded some pictures.

Please contact me if you want to see more, I have a fair few...

[skintkarter]

Hi Jim. Thanks for the photo. Just a tip on posting - for those of us who are still aspiring shapers and in awe of folk like yourself, it's great to see photos of stages of a job. There is always something to learn from them.

I used to find it a bit of a chore to post photos, but somebody put me onto FastStone Photo Resizer, which will batch reduce a bunch of photos to make them easier to post. Once you have done it a couple of times it will be easier than doing a tuck shrink The resizer can be downloaded from here http://www.faststone.org/download.htm - 4th option on the page, if you don't already have such a gizmo.

Look forward to seeing more when you have the time.

[Peter Tommasini]

Originally Posted by jimthehammer

Attachment 33936Ive uploaded some pictures.

Please contact me if you want to see more, I have a fair few...

Jim are you making that guard piece or buying the part?
Peter

[jimthehammer]

Hi Peter, cant buy the piece ive had to make it. 250LM

[Peter Tommasini]

Originally Posted by jimthehammer

Hi Peter, cant buy the piece ive had to make it. 250LM

That would be a nice piece to make , it has a return and a bulbous shape, and if I remember right, a nice shape on the wheel arch as well ...... beautiful stuff
Peter