Ferrari 250TR Parts Restoration
Work done using the TM Tech Air Power Hammer

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Over the years Kent has done three 250TR restorations. Kent still has the old bucks for some of the body parts he restored and uses them in the workshop environment to help students learn to shaping strategies with the TM Air Power Hammer.

The hood blister and headrest are two components that are essential for students to learn to make. The images below show several of our workshop participants learning to make these parts.

Making the separate components of a single large part is a common way to make aluminum sheet metal body parts.
The Ferrari 250TR headrest is being made by this student on the Model 3000 Curved Frame Air Power Hammer.
The hood blister, shown here, is being made just as the Scaglietti factory did back in 1958. The student begins by making the two halves.
After the hood blister halves are formed and fit, they are butt welded and then planished, using the Model 2000 Interchangable-Post Air Power Hammer.
The 250TR hood blister is now butt welded, planished and metal finished with a body file. The blister is fit to the buck once again while the edge flanges are marked off for turning.
The hood blister is now having its edges flanged up, using the Air Power Hammer and the Flanger dies. This method follows a marked line very accurately and needs no other correction. This flange is made without leaving any marks.
The finished Testa Rossa hood blister is shown next to the buck. We used the correct alloy, 3003, thickness, .040” and temper, half-hard, with no annealing. Since we have an original undamaged TR59 hood blister to work from, the workmanship is accurate to the factory’s original.