tub cover
 

just trying to make the tub cover in alum sheet but how do you make the corners fold over the rear neatly any ideas would be geat

you could try cuting a peice of wood about 1" thick putting a radius on it then using a wooden mallet beat it round??

just an idea, well thats how i would do it.

hope this helps.

pictures of how you do it would be nice to see.

Regards
Dean

find someone to lend you one of these

http://www.frost.co.uk/automotive-bo...-slappers.html

tub cover
 

Hi guys how you doing I just red the post regarding the tools you can use I'm not sure if there are DIY spoons but slappers there are if you take a old file with a broken handle "flat file" and bend it to look the same as the ones you can buy and then using one of those flat sanding disks on a grinder you make the file smooth and then you can use that as a slapper it works the same as the ones you buy

You need to start with a few sheets of paper before you start cutting ali sheet. Tape a sheet of paper so that 40mm of sticks above the top of the tube line, mark the edges of the paper on the tube so you have a reference point. You need to reduce the height of the section that goes around the corner by 10-15mm and cut small accute triangle shapes in the cut down section. When you can fold the paper over the corner with out it over lapping the next triangle along you have got it correct. Remember sheets of paper are a penny a sheet, ali on the other hand is not. Don't be tempted to use a bare hammer to bend the ali over as you'll just end up with unsightly dents, use a length of pine as a dolly and work it over in 3-5deg bents back and forth untill the job is done.

Files snap like carrots in my experience! not sure you could bend one without heating it up, just a comment incase anyone tries it so they dont end up with a piece of file stuck in their face :D

here here file bending is not safe!

one of my old bosses used to have one made from a old heavy duty tyre leaver fashoned to look like a shoe horn