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Old 08-15-2018, 09:10 PM   #517
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Re: Trying to make Junky perhaps just a little bit Funky...

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Originally Posted by crakarjax View Post
I've sandblasted some small sections of sheet metal with no ill effects so far, and the metal didn't seem to heat up much. I think that if you do a small section at a time to prevent heating it should be ok, but I haven't tried it yet. Anyway, can't you heat metal to shrink it with a torch in order to solve oil-canning (like how old oil cans had a bottom that would pop up and down to squirt oil)?
I think Mike is concerned with taking it somewhere and not knowing what they are going to do. I think he is doing the right thing by playing it safe. It would be one more problem to deal with if the hood oil-canned.

And... OH! That's what "oil-canning" is!
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