Good stuff, thank you guys. David, those look good but about dexterity, do you think you could handle a SWB single decklid grille rib with them? 30" long strip of aluminum. Out of the oven and into a heated jig, clamping down sides of the rib in the jig to both straighten and shape.
I have thought of just using two heat guns on the jig. What I want to avoid is the heat sink jig sucking all the temp out of the rib so it doesn't form when compressed.
Steve, I am dismantling SWB grille ribs that are bent and wavy and nicked up. I made jig compress them and shape and hold them while I sand and polish to rounded rod profile at the top. If I could, I would have tooling made with locating pins that you put the rib in and sandwich it with particular tolerance and bake. I can't do that as nearly every rib is unique and the cost for tooling would well into 5 figures. So I made a modular jig that will work for all ribs.
500ºF ribs into a hot jig and clamping them down has been interesting to say the least and not repeatable against a caution vs. time metric.
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