Burdekin
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Best to limit the distortion like other folk have said, cooling it straight after welding with a airline will also remove some of the stress and distortion. Welding car panels with oxy or Tig it’s common practice to plannish the welds. Just remember that is where the stress is, you start trying to heat or hammer the parent metal you’re not ever going to fix it. The distortion is there because the weld area has shrunk and pulled the parent metal in, how you go about stretching the weld is up to you to decide. I mainly weld car panels, you can weld a flat sheet and it can be all distorted but with a bit of plannishing and stretching the weld it will be back dead flat.