Slippery Anne update

[Bob Culver]

Thanks all

I no longer have the energy or time to much utilise the few skills I have so not now so keen to add more!

With all the discussion about metal stretching  it is perhaps timely to mention that when repairing damage the aim is usually the opposite ie to not further stretch the metal.  Where things cannot be bent or pulled back to shape blocks of lead cast in jam tins, pieces of hardwood etc form useful instruments with low risk of stretching. Most amateurs resort immedately to ball pein hammer which hugely complicates proper restoration. (With the thin panels on moderns can push many dents out with fingers!)