Prices
2
day course is £380 no VAT......................£50 deposit
5
day course is £680 no VAT......................£100 deposit
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to confirm availability, deposit required within 5 days to
confirm booking
Final
payment is due 4 weeks before the course starts or full course
cost will be charged
Tea
and coffee supplied
Course
Dates
MPH
Motor Panels run wheeling courses all year round, please don't
hesitate to contact us on the details below.
Two
Day Course
Day
One
The day begins with coffee
and registration followed by a short talk on the health and
safety aspects of the course. This is followed by a
tutorial and discussion on the basic
principles of cutting, marking out and pattern making.
You
then move on to practical work, learning how to stretch and
shrink metal to form a curved flange on a flat panel, accurately
and cleanly. Following this you will wire the edge of
the same panel. This is all achieved using basic hand
tools.
The
next practical lesson involves using a mallet and wooden block,
shaping a panel to accurately fit a jig or former. You
will also smooth the panel using hand tools and a wheeling
machine.
Day
Two
We
begin with a tutorial and discussion on jig building and general
body construction. You will then learn butt welding
using TIG or gas torch. This is an important technique required
in the making and repair or replacement of panels. The rest
of the day is spent practicing all of the techniques learnt
on the first day.This reinforces and refines the skills you
have gained.
At
the end of the course you will go away with all the knowledge
and confidence required to enable you to produce small repair
panels and repair or alter larger panels to accurately fit
your bodywork.
Five
Day Course
Day
One
The
day begins with coffee and registration followed by a short
talk on the health and safety aspects of the course.
This is followed by a tutorial and discussion on the basic
principles of cutting, marking out and pattern making.
We
then move onto practical work, cutting steel and aluminium
using tin snips creating minimal distortion in the process.
Then
learning how to stretch and shrink metal to form a curved
flange on a flat panel, accurately and cleanly. Following
this you will wire the edge of the same panel. This is all
achieved using basic hand tools.
The
next practical lesson involves using a mallet and wooden block,
shaping a panel to accurately fit a jig or former. You will
also smooth the panel using hand tools and a wheeling machine.
The English
Wheeling Machine is a device for smoothing and creating
a double curvature shape in sheet metal and requires expert
instruction in its use and limitations. It also requires a
fair amount of practice before a novice can begin to fully
understand and master its capabilities. The use of the
wheeling machine will feature
greatly throughout the course.
Day
Two
We
begin with a tutorial and discussion on taking shapes and
making patterns for double curvature panels. We will
also discuss methods and practicalities of jig building.
You
will then practice butt welding with one to one supervision
using a TIG welding machine until you are capable of producing
a first class weld that has no metal added with filler
rod, and so does not require grinding.This results in a beautiful
join that can be planished to a smooth finish and in so doing
relieve the welding stresses in the material.
This
welding usually takes about half an hour per person regardless
of previous experience so the rest of the day is spent
shaping and wheeling.
Day
Three
We begin with a tutorial
and discussion on body construction and alignment.
This
is followed by further practice of shaping, and butt welding
on a double curvature panel. At this stage in the course you
will go on to produce a more sophisticated shape incorporating
a reverse curve which will be butt welded to your original
panel. You can also now begin work on a project of your own
if you wish.
Day
Four
Begins
with a tutorial and discussion on specialized tool-making
for those awkward little recesses and finely detailed work
that cannot be accomplished with traditional tools.
We
look at ways of producing quick, easy made tools, jigs, fixtures
and aids to help us add more precise detail to our work. For
example, recesses for door-locks, flanged or sunken holes,
and petrol filler cap recesses, et cetera.
This
is followed by a resumption of work on the more sophisticated
panel, incorporating all the techniques learned so far. We
aim to finish this by the afternoon on day five.
Day
Five
We
begin with a general discussion and feedback session and then
continue with the final project panel until it is completed.
Throughout
the course you are encouraged to ask questions and make comments
on any of the techniques used and also make your own suggestions
as to how a job might be done. This helps to remove any mystique
you may feel in certain areas.
At
the end of the course you will go away with all the skills
and confidence required to enable you to produce complete
panels and repair or alter panels to accurately fit your bodywork.
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