Can anyone recommend a metal bending shop in the South San Francisco Bay
Area near San Jose, California that can do hourly work fixing bent metal on
enclosures? We occasionally get shipping damage on sheet metal enclosures
and we would like to find an economic way to bend them back into shape.

--
Will

Will wrote:
Can anyone recommend a metal bending shop in the South San Francisco Bay
Area near San Jose, California that can do hourly work fixing bent metal on
enclosures? We occasionally get shipping damage on sheet metal enclosures
and we would like to find an economic way to bend them back into shape.

Perhaps an auto body shop could recommend someone.

Can you post links to pictures so the folks here can see what you're
talking about?

http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox.html

Perhaps it is something that could be handled with a couple 2 x 4's and
some "C" clamps or a rubber mallet. Perhaps some kind of fancy
pneumatic pillow:

http://www.arizonatools.com/tools/sh...tail/LTILT800/

I expect that the closer you get to 'like new' the more expensive the
repair. What are your expectations for the appearance of the repaired
sheet metal? Where is your pain threshold 'per dent' money-wise?

--Winston