Thread: Is this a rasp/file/riffel/???

The top one looks like body file !
It goes on a flexible holder.
Sort of like a compass plane.
What panel beaters use to check panels when repairing them.
You tap your dint up then run the file over it show high an low spots.
An then repeat an repeat an repeat lol.
I use to have four or five them.

Cheers Matt,

Thanks Mr Simplicity. I think you're spot on. I would never have thought they could flex like the ones i saw on the HAFCO website

Matt, back when I were a lad, the local panel-beaters were still using lead to fill some types of dents, plastic bog was still a few years away from reaching our neck of the woods. The way I saw those soft-metal files used, it was to level the lead fill & they were fixed to either straight or very slightly curved holders if my memory serves me right. I vaguely remember watching someone fixing a pretty badly mangled mudguard of a 1920s Chev.4 in the mid '50s. I was amazed when it was done & painted - looked like new! I thought the bloke must've had some magical powers....

Cheers,

I rebuilt a '38 Chev a few years ago, did a panel beating course where I learnt lead wiping as IanW explained. Sold the Chev but I've still got the body file, in this case by Sykes-Pickavent of England. Can be adjusted from convex right through to concave as required.
Cheers,
Geoff.

Originally Posted by IanW

Matt, back when I were a lad, the local panel-beaters were still using lead to fill some types of dents, plastic bog was still a few years away from reaching our neck of the woods. The way I saw those soft-metal files used, it was to level the lead fill & they were fixed to either straight or very slightly curved holders if my memory serves me right. I vaguely remember watching someone fixing a pretty badly mangled mudguard of a 1920s Chev.4 in the mid '50s. I was amazed when it was done & painted - looked like new! I thought the bloke must've had some magical powers....

Cheers,

The “Black Magic” is patience [emoji6]
File finishing is just a patience game.
Lead loading is still practiced were panel joints are know to stress.

There is nothing wrong with Bog, the problem is it’s abused [emoji35].

Cheers Matt