Hello to you from germany

[DieselWeasel]

Hi!

My name is Jan. I'm from south-eastern germany, the black forest region. I work in a classic car garage, we do mostly mercedes and porsche plus air cooled vws (mostly the busses/vans). I sort of slipped into the role of being our "panel guy", not planing to become it. Since we need to deal a lot with rust, I'm having a lot of work.

The thing is; it used to be easy to get repair panels. But it's starting to get bad, both in availability & quality. I'm not a trained panel beater. So far it was simply not necessary to recreate complex panels. But I want to step up my game, that's why I joined here. The time will come where I just have to recreate panels. I want to learn, I want to progress. I want to get better at what I'm doing. With the basic tools I got (welder, tin snips & a hammer).

I'm interested in building an eglish wheel and a pullmax style machine.

So basically - I've come here to seek inspiration, to learn. And sometime give back! I don't take it for granted when people share theyr knowledge & wisdom with others they don't even know. I'm already thankful this place exists!

Kind regards,
Jan

[cliffrod]

Welcome to the forum, Jan.

[Peter Tommasini]

Hi Jan welcome to the forum
Peter

[dwmh]

Welcome to the forum Jan. You've come to the right place to learn. We are lucky that many talented people contribute to help us all.

Regards

[DieselWeasel]

Thanks for the welcome!

Here are a couple of (bad, sorry) pictures from our workshop...









So - lots of work... And I want to get a lot better at it, as I said. There's noone to teach me, but myself. And all the generous people on here. And again - I'm thankful for anyone whoe shares theyr knowledge. I hope that one day I can do the same and pass on my knowledge

Kind regards,
Jan

[Blechpatscher]

Welcome aboard

Willkommen im Forum

It seems pretty crowded with all the stuff going on in the shop, do you have apicture of your working area?
It's a shame, that you're on your own when it comes to metal work, but with determination and the help of this board I'm sure you'll pull through.

[neilb]

welcome jan, you have some cool air cooled stuff there!

[Rollenstreckmaschine]

Hey Jan, hope you are doing well! Happy to help, I'm near Frankfurt/Main.

Made a couple of tools the recent years, you can come over to my place to have a look and to check how they work.

http://www.allmetalshaping.com/album.php?albumid=1091

Cheers, Jochen