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Re: Wampus Cat
Bed Side - Tops
The tops of the Bed Sides were kind of wavy...... In the middle, they were bent up in about a 1/4 to 3/8 inch curve which I think may have been done when someone tried to lift the bed without a proper support frame, and this bed is heavy due to its steel tread-plate floor. In other areas, the tops were bent down 1/8 to 1/4 inch apparently due to just damage from use as a truck.
We made up a jig with a 4x4, a couple of 2x4's, and a large c-clamp and worked it around on the tops of the side panel clamping it up or down slightly beyond yield to straighten it. I still need to weld and grind about a dozen holes in these areas that may have been used to mount a ladder rack (or something), but overall I think we got these pretty straight.
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