Wheel Techniques

And today we're going to show you a few tricks, a few ways, what wheel to use, what anvil to use, how to hold a panel and on on wheeling. There's going to be a bit of a wheeling lesson. So what I decide to do is to use the rear, the bottom pan of t It has also got a running into the next panel here. So it's not just a matter of cutting a pattern and just start wheeling You've got to take care because as you can see, it needs to run in through here and I'll show you after on the board what I'm in. But before we do that, I want to put t So we start off with putting t So in a minute, I'm going to put it on. We're going to change the position of the camera and we check the joint and the flow. As you can see, it's flowing beautifully on the joint right here and now the camera will come up a little bit with the camera and you can actually see the flow through here. Now t Obviously we haven't made the cap. Let's call it a cap. But you can see again that everyt I'm going to explain on the board what's going to happen if you don't do t Let me show you on the board what I've tried to explain on the job. So here I've got the same profile of the bottom panel. T And as you can see, we need to line up, put a weld and line up with the top panel. So t What you want to do is work it in such way that when you put the weld in and I'm going to mark this in red, you don't end up with a surface that looks Okay? Because then you have to do a lot of work and it's not, well it can work but it takes a long, long time and it's a lot of extra work. Another that's fine. Another thing you don't want is this to look That's exaggerated. An exaggerated so you can see what I mean. Because what's going to happen is if you weld it in that position, there's the weld there, if you weld it in that position again, t So don'take too much notice but it's a little bit of an exaggeration so you can imagine what I'm talking about. Because as that's come down, that way it will reduce the shape here. Then the problem you've got, you've got a big panel then that you've got to try and to work. So that's why I'm going to show you the way and the wheel to use to get that perfectly okay. Now what you've got to understand also is the disc panel here, at t So I'll show you why and I'll explain when I'm welding it, I'll explain what I'm talking about. So now we're going to go on a sample that I've made, I'm going to show you the difference between the sample and the one that we put in originally, then I'm going to go on the wheel and show you how to fix that problem. Here's a sample n I'm going to put this sample into the car As you can see it's flowing pretty good through here but have a look at t Now as I mentioned on the board, t I'll show you why to do that. We're there doing extra wheeling, extra bending because of course if you just bend that, well n In other words, we got that panel here so you won't be able to bend it. But I'll show you on the wheel how to ac You can shrink it a little bit but then you have to have perhaps a little bit more metal so you want to then cut the strings out. But I'll see if I can do it without shrinking that in. Again, I'll explain. You can shrink t Okay, you won't fix the fact that it's hard up against there. So you're not doing the right t Okay, so now I'm going to go on the wheel and show you how I'm going to fix that problem. Then we're going to put the sample back up there and show you step by step how I get that to go around there. Okay, what I did, I marked it. It was tight in a little bit here and it needed to come around t Remember it's obviously too straight but what we've got to be careful of is not to get it too round because if you do then we go back to what I said on the board. Remember you don't want that. So I'm going to show you the best way to control that to get t Okay, so what we're going to do now, the first t Now don't laugh, I'm going to stand on it. Simple fact that you cannot put a full wheel through here and not get in lines. Your best bet is to open as much as possible, use a flatter wheel as possible, then close it. So in order to do that, I'm going to simply stand on the panel. Okay. You can see that I've opened that up quite. And you can see there's ripples all over the place. I'm not too worried about the ripples on t I just want to show you the principle to get together around. Now don't forget also that's going around as Okay, so this got to go around and you've got to blend this into that because that does not go around And I'm going to stop in a minute and show you on the board the area. Okay, the area in question is t I see if I can draw it. The panel as you can see it's going somewhere in there. Okay. T I'm not a good drawer unfortunately but just to get on there. Okay, so as I said to you before, t Yeah? So now that you can see t Okay, the first t In order not to put too many lines. So I'm going to try them with t And that would do the job. Okay, so I'm going to swap the wheel over. I'm going to put the panel on the wheel. Not too much pressure. Don't use too much pressure. I don't know why people squeeze. I've seen people putting three, four turns of the wheel. You can't control it. You hollow everyt T You've got to keep your eyes on everyt So w You just got to keep looking at it and feel it. Feeling is the best way. I'm just going to stop for a second because I'm going to put my gloves on for two reasons. I don't want to put anyt And with gloves, I can feel the job a lot better. Okay, the first t So what I'll do is with medi Now, also, I'm not going to go straight across. I'm going to come across t See t Because that is the area where it comes around. And that tells me where to stop pulling down. I don't want t So we're going to pull down in t Yeah? As you can see, I am not using loads of pressure. But I get that edge in first. I get that down a little bit. Then I come along and blend it in. I'm going to come along and blend it in. And I come along and blend it in just Because we need a bit of pressure. We need a bit of shape in here as well, remember? So towards the front. Stop at one point all the time. Because you're going to end up with a mark. And then you come and blend in. Now I'm going to come through here again. Slowly does it through here. Try not to go too further in. Blend it all in nicely. Use a flat wheel as I said before. Make sure you don't use a too sharp wheel. T See, I'm pulling down every time. But there is not to have tons of pressure. A little bit, yes, but not too much. Just to show you in a minute the pressure as well. I'm going to put the panel in and out. Okay, watch. See that? That's the pressure you want to have. If you've got too much pressure every time you stop, you're going to put a nasty, nasty, bloody dint in it. And then it's going to be hard to get rid of. Now I'm coming around t And as you can see, I'm concentrating on the two black lines there. Meaning these two black lines. Okay, so now I'm going to take the pressure off again and try to smooth it off. And then I close it and check it. Now you can see the angle that I'm using. Because I've got a wider wheel. And I smooth that all the way through a little bit. Because I might have to reopen it again. I don't know yet. Now all the way through. Make sure that there's no stop marks. A little bit of stop marks. Very, very, if you've got a little bit, it doesn't matter. Because you can still do that with a sharp wheel once it's closed in. But I'm going to close it all up. Now you can see that I'm pulling and I'm wheeling, holding here. Pulling down. I'm not going to the edge yet. And I'm staying between those two black lines. And of course I can feel. Anyt Now you might wonder, how does it know to feel, to where to wheel? I can feel it. That's why we must have a nice wheel. Nice and polished. Clean metal. So you can see what you're actually doing. Okay, so now it's a little bit smooth. Now I'm going to bend it back. Okay, now I'm going to try to bend that of course will straighten it. But let'see. What I've done is even though it's going to be straight, it's good enough. Otherwise we'll open it up again with the same procedure again. So let me just close it. Where it was before. Check it. Use your fingers. Now you can see here, on the blend, that it's not quite right. So now what I'm going to do, I'm going to get the wheel very lightly. And bring t Not too much, just to blend it in. And then of course, we go onto the back. Put it on and see what else we need to do. So now I'm going to use a different wheel. I'm going to take t Not much, slightly flatter. And I'm going to pull that down. I'll check it. Make sure that it's the right shape. And very slowly. Look, there's no pressure on that. Maybe a little bit more. There we go. Now, very slowly. Just let the panel do its t Just pull it down there. Not too much. Remember, t Remember on the board of shardier, t No hooking over or hooking under, whatever you want to call it. And again, a little bit there and then all the way through. Don't stop at one point. Now, one t You can fix that as well. And I'll show you if I get too full out, I'll fix it. But use a little bit of pressure and just very slowly bring that down very slowly. Hold your hand there. Hold it there. See, I'm hooking in a little bit there. Now I'll show you why on the board again. Just there and then back here. Just there. Okay, just there and then back here. But I've got no pressure. I will get no stop marks. But what I'm not doing, in t Why? Because I'm going to push shape there where I don't want it. And I'll show you on the board where the shape is. Okay, so now before I go any further, so you can understand what I'm talking about here, I'm going to go on the board and show you t Okay. Okay, I'll be working on the top. T And at the bottom here, as I said, excuse my drawing yet. I'm not good at drawing. I'm working on t But nowhere near as much as what's up the top there. That's where the blend is. So that's what I'm doing now. I'm going to eyeball it and have a look at it. And I can tell you it needs a bit of shape here, right here. So back on the wheel. And just very slowly, don't yank it down. You'll be sorry. Just very slowly work it. Very slowly work it. Just slowly, slowly, slowly. When you get to here, because the wheel there starts to get a bit too flat for that area. So just come around. Here we go. Come around and blend it in. Come around and blend it in there as well. Okay. Now come back here and as you come out on the flat. And then blend it in. Now you might say, is it going to get stop marks? No, you won't because I've got no pressure. I am handling the panel rather than using pressure. I've seen a lot of guys putting on enormous amount of pressure on a panel. And guess what? They're going to destroy it. Okay, now I'm going to eyeball it again and I can see that it wants to come out. It wants to come out. And now we're going to go onto the back and see what we got. Okay, let'see what we got. Okay, you can see that it's getting very close but there's a little bit of discrepancy here and that only means hand limits. So you just open it up here and shut it back there. You can do that on the wheel or your fingers. So that's what I'm going to do right now. There we go. Okay, now what I need to do, I'm going to put the original panel back in. What I need to do now is to take the panel back off, do a little bit of blocking on the actually radius. Remember, even in the early stages, and I'll show you that later By blocking a little bit through here, it will start, the panel will start to go. Then I will be wheeling that section out so that it's perfect. I'm near the panel and go over. Okay, the same principle you saw me doing at the front of the bottom panel. It goes on any joint. Now, I'll show you here. I've got a little bit of plate here holding the three panels together. And you can see that the joints are pretty good. All it needs is to tuck it and weld it. Same through here. T It's not quite cut yet. I'll eventually will cut that there and put it in. But we've got a small problem here. See what I said release. I get the camera to remain from the top in a minute. And I need to release a little bit of that just from here to there. Release it a little bit, maybe with a mandoline. You can't leave it But as I said, the less work you want to do once you weld it, the better. Now, as I said, the camera will go from the top and you can see that that's why we're getting the same t So slowly it's going to come up from the top and you can see here that t So by releasing a little bit, I will then be able to lift t It will flow in better with t Even though we got the headlight here somewhere, w Here we got the same t You can see how, put a little bit of bracket there, I found a bracket on the bench. One screw to hold it all together. You can see that's what you must have. When you do it t If you've got any problems with the fitting, then you'll have to smash it, panel-bid it, stretch it, shrink it, blah, blah, blah, blah, and you'll then end up with a big repair and you're literally working where you already have been working on. So you can see that everyt I've got my marks here and then bit by bit, I'll be putting them together depending on what I'm doing. If I could possibly put t So it's a matter of w Now come around here and I'll show you another one. I'll give the cameraman to zoom in on t Now I could easily belt that out a little bit and weld it, but again, I don't want to do that. As you can see, I put bend. Now I can't wheel on t So what I'll do by bending it, it helps coming around and also straighten a little bit. I'll just bend it there a little bit, see, bend on the pipe and then push t It's just literally doing that. Once it's perfect, I'll tack it and weld it. There's a little bit of a twist there, I already marked it. Down as you can see, bend, so I get that right. Now come around here. Before I do any of that, I just mark t Into the flare here, there's a flare here going on. There's a return coming on here. If you look at these cars, it's a bulbous shape and there's a flare coming up and going up into the door. And maybe for a good time later, I will show you how to literally do that. Because that shape there, it drips out, it's open more than t So there's a certain way to do that as well. Keep in mind that here, say I said no wheeling, t You can't afford to have that going that way. Same reason. If you do that, then the mudguard will look And you don't want that. So you do a little bit of wing-league here and my draw a little bit there. But with low pressure then, you just touch it up and keep that straight. When I say straight, reasonably straight. It's got a little bit of shape, but not much. Because the wheel arch here, the wheel arch here needs to be parallel through here. So you can imagine if I wheel too much in here, that will come in and then it will look horrible. So t And I just get the camera to look at it, right across here. It needs to be flowing. It also needs to be flowing through here and of course through there. So there's the same principle I applied. You've got to open them up, wheel them, whatever, bring them down a little bit. Until closing, check them, until it's right. Once it's right, you then finish it off. We've got the same t As you can see, there's a bit of water to be done on t Not much, but we're nearly there. Same principle. Line them up. The panels are made. They need a bit of cleaning here and there, but they've made. And the joint is very important. It would be silly to do all that work. T Well, if you do that, you're going to upset the two ends. So they're pays to get them right. I'm going to go to the back and show you a perfect fit. I haven't cut it yet, but it's a perfect fit. Just come around here. T I'll cut it and that will go in nicely. Don't forget that it's all over the top. 1. 6 over the top. That'll come nicely. Then of course we've got t It'll also be a nice fit. Same t Get it perfect. And then weld it in. So there's very minimal work through here. Okay. Now that we've gone through the matc And I'm going to show you quickly how I approach the blocking. I thought I'd start backwards so you can see, you can get an idea of what's going on. Now we're going to go to the original blocking and shaping of that front panel. I've got a pattern over there. I've got a little bit of a blank. I'm going to mark a few t Okay. Let's do it. Okay. Here we've got the pattern that we made from the, from the back. I've got some, some drawing there and I'll explain what that is. Okay. So let me show you some of these lines, w T Let's call that the wide area. The one that hugs around the back panel. I'm sorry, the cap, the two caps. Then t Not too much, not as much as that. Remember? Now t And I'll show you on another piece that I've made up. That's t So remember, once the panel comes up and I t Okay. T And that's, I'm going to try it all right there just to help me. So you can see here, Okay. Now this area here, which is that, is where we're going to eventually, we're eventually going to have the panel I block it, remember? I block it on that area, right there, w And then I'm going to only let them bring it down. You should know by now what I'm talking about. There's your panel there. The first the chances are that it'll hollow out right there. And then of course, if it hollows out, it's hard to try and get it. And you're going to try and to wheel every w So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to put a little bit of shape right there. Just there, knowing very well that's going to suck it in. But at least it brings me back to flat, not with a hollow. And that's what I'm going to do. Okay, so the first trust me, you don't want that. Remember, as that curl, you can'tell how much shape it is. And I just go through that once more just to make sure that you understand what I'm talking about. Okay, so just watch the matter that I'm wheeling t I've got a sharper wheel by the way to put a bit of shape quickly so you can see what I'm talking about. So if you squeeze too hard, it's got quite a bit of pressure there. I'm going to put some panel. And as you can see the panel start to roll into a barrel. Now if you keep going I'm going to smooth t But again, I'm going to do the wrong t Okay, apart from all the lines you're going to get and on I'll show you somet There's the panel turning into a barrel unless you have to make it that shape but let's pres See all that shape there? Now you keep wheeling that way and the panel will battle out. Have a look. The shape is gone. What that means is that I mentioned before is when the panel goes back the way that it should and I'm going to stand on it and show you and put it on the floor and stand on it the way that it should. So you first stand on that and straighten it. Look at the shape going back in. Too much I know. I went silly with the wheel but that's the principle of it. So you need to wheel the way that the panel is on the car. Pull it down a little bit but hold it the way. Get the pressure. Hold it the way that it should be held. So what I've done here, I just very put it on the ground and just gave it a little bit of a bend. Not too much, just a little bit as you can see and that will help the panel on the wheel and stop from doing t See it's nice and stiff. What we're going to do as a mention is put a little bit of shape here because when I start blocking here there's going to be a hollow out. You don't want that. So let's put the panel in there. Get in the middle there. Just a little bit. Again, little pressure. Try to be even and try to run it in. Okay, not too much. Don't go too silly. All the way down. And if I t And just, okay, Okay, very slowly does it. Just come back in. It doesn't matter at t Just put a little bit of shape there because I'm telling you that's going to hollow out And then you'll be chasing it because you're into a. . . I've got a little bit of a l I'll show you that. Can you see that? Now I'm going to put a little bit of sharper wheel in there and try to draw some of that fullness out. Just to be on the safe side. And I'm going to concentrate on t Just a little bit. In a little bit, a little bit at a time. Easy does it. Don't go mental. Just there. Too much. Okay, same t Following that line. See that? And do it in that fas And I'll come in. See I don't stop at the same point. I come in. And I turn around and do the same t But I'm holding t Okay, just And I'm coming out. T And as you can see, there's already taken some of that out. W All right, now we go on to the blocking. We need to block it because it needs to come over. And it needs to be round up the top only. Remember, it's much more rounded here and wider down here. Okay, so let's go do some blocking.