This works the other doesn t.
How to shrink stainless steel sheet metal.
Before you start working the precious metal on your hot rod try heating and hammering some scrap metal.
Do not over heat the steel.
Heating up metal and throwing cold water on it may shrink it a tiny bit but it makes distortion and hard steel.
Get used to this idea and your abilities will grow.
These shrinking discs work well on steel stainless aluminum brass and may on some other metals.
Get an idea of how.
Heat to blue only and shrink that much.
It s ideal when lots of shrinking needs to be done and you don t have access to a machine.
Why not just heat it and gently hammer the swell down.
Here s a technique that was often used years ago and is still used today of how to shrink metal on a body panel after it has been damaged and stretched.