Maintenance Training : Airframe : sheet metal
Shaping Aluminum Wheel Pants, by Ken White (The Tin Man)

Shaping Aluminum
Wheel Pants

by Ken White (The Tin Man)

Run Time:
126 min
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In Shaping Aluminum Wheel Pants, Kent White advances upon and uses the techniques shown in "Shrinking Magic" to actually build aircraft components; in this case a set of wheel pants from a flat sheet of aluminum, and using nothing but a set of common hand tools and a torch.

The process starts with the drawing a templates, transfer of the templates to a wood buck in the desired shape, and then gradually working and finishing the metal to the shape of the buck. Other sections of the video detail types, tempers, and alloys of metals and details of the tools and procedures used for stretching and shrinking.

from the cover: Using a torch, mallet, stump, forming bag, slapper, dolly, and clamp you can make a really nice set of aircraft wheel pants. Learn how to go from a simple 3 view drawing to a station buck, divide the form into parts, pattern, blank, and shape. Fit all the pieces to the buck by shrinking and stretching and proper annealing.