Budweiser cooler rebuild help
 

I am rebuilding an old cooler for my brother in law and the bottom is rusted out. I started cutting out the bad and it just keeps showing up. I think i will replace the whole bottom.

The questions I have for you is what is a good way to get the curves and not just have them square?

Guy at work suggested fiberglassing it but that doesn't seem like it would hold up very well.
Thanks

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Not much of a way to do that unless you have some mad fabbing skills. Maybe you could find an old metal tool box or large metal fishing tackle box and cut the corners out of it. (Just thinking out loud here.)

LockDoc

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Maybe you could cut a piece of mandrel bent tubing or something for the corners. Just a thought.

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Magna bend using a piece of round stock.... You could accomplish similar by clamping a pipe across your flat stock on the edge of work bench and bending the sheet around the pipe... then just make corners and weld them in separate.



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Alternatively, you could make a completely new bottom, turn up the 4 sides with the radius, and tuck shrink the corners to keep it all one piece.. You don't have a lot of height that is needed, so the corners would not be that hard to form over a rounded post anvil. Here is a video of a similar operation, although a much smaller scale. The theory is the same, however...

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Old school cake pans? Cut out the parts you need and weld 'er up!

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Thanks for the responses guys. I'm going to try to do it like that MP&C