Vintage Steel Surface Finish Slapper Flipper Metal Shaping Auto Body Repair USA

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Thick Tool #1 Maybe Mephisto same as my thinner one I am offering in my store.
Vintage Auto Body Steel Surface Finish Slapper Flipper for Metal Shaping Auto Body Repair made in USA
Steel Surface Finish Slapper Flipper
Auto Body Slapper Metal Shaping
Surface Finishing Slapper
Length of Blade 7 1/2" X 3/16" Thick X 1 13/16 Wide
Weight   1LBS  8.8oz    Overall 13 3/8"
You will find signs of use and age with the expected patina on all my vintage tools, doesn't affect use.  Please check all the photos.
Today I am selling My Auto Body Hammers and Dollies.  Many are Unique and Non Standard.  Ebay has over 20,000 Auto body tools listed.  I looked at every page to try and ID + match-up my tools with others for sale.  I had a hard time finding most of my Unusual Tools.  so they are Not Run of the Mill Tools.  Please Enjoy my listings.  I hope you find the info I have listed helpful.
Steel Surface Finish Slapper/Flippers for metal shaping and auto body repair, our standard length finishing slapper can do smoothing (planish)-blending-stretching-shrinking on all metal type surfaces. 1 3/16" wide blade x 3/16" thick x 7 1/2” effective blade length , slight spring feel of the blade, 13 1/2” overall length, with a generous blend radius on the working blade edge. Use on mild steel and aluminum materials.  Weight: 1 lbs 8.8oz. If you haven’t used a metal surface slapper they are an excellent complement to any existing panel beater or auto body hammer. But, different than the auto body hammer the steel slapper blade allows you to disperse forces over a much larger area and enhances your control of surface changes. The steel slapper will bring up low areas in a panel if worked with a hand dolly-handle dolly-T Dolly-forming head, our supportive surface. You can also lower and lightly shrink high surface areas using similar techniques as with the low spots. The large surface area of the blade provides smoothing quality than a panel beater would normally not provide. All with a non-marring surface quality. Need to initiate some lineal stretching in targeted areas the steel slapper working on a solid backed dolly or a leather shot bag will effectively perform to expectations. We’ve also developed these steel slappers to allow working on the late model heat treated aluminum bodies for smoothing and blending of dents and surface marking. For metal shaping, metalworking, motorcycle building, aircraft panels, auto body repair & restoration.   Key design features of a Steel Metal Surface Slapper:·  A Positive balance feel is vital.·  Length & width of blade should be relative to surface area to be smoothed. Longer blade lengths for large lower crown surfaces, stubby length blade for high crown areas where access can be an issue. Varying blade widths will allow a wider zone of work while adding slightly to blade weight that can be useful on slightly thicker gauge metals and allow more lineal stretching of a surface zone.·  Working blade surface ideally should have a taper edge all the way around to help ensure that you do leave unnecessary surface marks or dings.·  Slapper handle grip form should allow for good clearance to work surface and allow the hand to be able to apply positive surface striking and receive feedback. With good work surface viewing.
Mephisto Tool Co. Turns out they've been around a while, since 1830 and they're still making tools in Hudson NY. The fancified “
Mephisto
” logo was registered as a trademark by the William A. Ives Company of Wallingford, Conn., in 1909.
They have a more specialized inventory now, mostly chisels and caulking tools.
I have not found any connection between Mr. Smith and Utica, W.A. Ives, or Mephisto Tool Company, and I suspect he was licensing the design.
I don’t know when the Mephisto Tool Company emerged from the W.A. Ives Company, or when they moved across the river and downstate from Wallingford, Conn., to Hudson, N.Y., but they surely did. The earliest public domain document I can find that references that name is a 1937 Hardware Age.
Automotive Body Hammers and Dollies
Driving around in a damaged vehicle can add insult to injury. Body hammers and car dollies are the tools needed to make minor collision repairs. The tools can be used on metal, including steel, as well as fiberglass bodies.
What is the body hammer-on-dolly technique?
Specialists use hammer-on-dolly and hammer-off-dolly techniques to remove minor dents and defects from vehicles. It works like this: An body hammer is tapped against the outer part of a vehicle panel while a dolly, also called a spoon, is placed on the underside. This keeps the metal from acquiring further dents while it is being reshaped. Mallets typically tap out the high dents while dollies reinforce the low dents, but roles can be reversed as needed. When the reinforcement tool is placed directly opposite the mallet, then you are performing the hammer-on-dolly technique. When the reinforcement is roughly an inch or less away from the mallets impact, then you are using the hammer-off-dolly technique.
How do you use a body hammer and dolly kit?
The first thing to do when using automotive mallets and car dollies is to choose your equipment. Curved car dollies are used when a dent is on a curved portion of the vehicle; otherwise, flat ones are used. Body hammers typically have two sides: one is square, and the other is rounded, although there are types that have two rounded edges and others that have one or two pointed edges as well as other options. The shape determines how the mallets impact is distributed over a specific area. Once you've chosen your heavy-duty tools, there are a few rules to follow:
Reverse the damage. Indirect damage is found in the area that received the lowest impact. The general rule is to start on the outside and work your way into the area of direct damage. The heavily impacted area should be the last area you work out.
Metal stretches. It doesn't matter if you are talking about aluminum or steel; metal stretches when it is worked. Overworked metal needs to be shrunk, a process that is worth avoiding. Use the "on" method sparingly because it can cause stretching if overused.
When do you use different dent repair methods?
For big dents and heavy damage, start with the "off" method. This method works out major areas of concern without compromising the steel and stretching it. Once the big areas are taken care of, use the "on" method for finer work. The "on" method is typically used for steel edges. Knock out all the big damage before working out smaller defects.
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