New guy, trying to find a good shrinking die set
 

I am in the process of finishing a power hammer machine I designed and am looking for a good quality set of thumbnail shrinking dies with the 3/4" post for sale. Any recommendations? I have built a chopper from scratch, ie. tank fender, frame, bars, controls, etc. however I am still a novice when it comes to forming metal. I was told by several experienced mc guys that my first tank was incredibly impressive since it was very complex. I am here on this forum to try to get myself ready for a much larger project. I am going to hand build a 1930's style luxury auto with an aluminum body much like the Duesenbergs of that era.

Hi Mark and welcome !:)

Mark, welcome and thanks for the introduction. Hope you find the site helpful and enjoyable. Thanks for joining us.

For thumbnail dies contact:
Fulton Metal Works
Stan Fulton
P.O. Box 242
Ashland, IL 62612
email: sfulton@casscomm.com
217-476-8223

Stan sells both the steel and plastic thumbnail dies.

HI Mark welcome to the forum
Peter

I am a man of simple tastes, easily satisfied with the best.

Try Barry, a poster on the site. I got mine from him.

http://hoosierprofiles.com/Home_Page_2_2.html

joe andrews

I bought some from Dennis at Hot Metal Engineering a while back - they work pretty good in my Nibbler. Still planning to build a dedicated machine with some throat depth.
They were on sale - no idea if he still does them
http://allmetalshaping.com/member.php?u=5734

I also have two homemade sets (one very small like in Ben's "Shrinky" machine) and they work equally well after some tuning....