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Old 12-17-2023, 06:16 PM   #310
clay68c10
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Re: ClusterTruck; because that’s what it is

Here’s another area I had to use the beat down technique.
I hammered down the circled area and welded it to the door skin flange. Then I used the dull chisel to push the corner down (arrows) to the line where the new corner would end up. The old corner straightened out as I put pressure in the new corner. I tacked along the vertical seam on the left as the metal got parallel.
The drilled hole is so I can rosette weld to mimic the spot weld that ties into the door reinforcement.
I had to do a similar corner method on the hinge side. It’s like the patch isn’t tall enough on the bottom but it is towards the hinge. That part needed the corner to be pushed in to sharpen it. I also tacked it at the skin side and filled in tacks as it shaped up.
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