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Old 07-30-2022, 12:45 PM   #44
66C10LB
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Location: West Kelowna, BC, Canada
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Re: 1966 C10 LB 2wd 283 4spd build

Pfew. Finally got the passenger outer door skin in good shape. Good lesson for me. It's not easy to keep things straight and maintain the curvature of the panel when doing the full bottom straight across like that. Used copper backing plates attached by clecos. Welded with slowly applied and spaced tacks. Still had to get creative with hammer/dolly methods (using a hitch ball and scissor jack inside the door as "dollys"). Pushed out low spots with my makeshift dollys and hammered, off dolly method, on high spots. Filled in pin holes and cleco holes. . Got it quite close ...1/16 or so. Thinking absolute perfection is not possible so hopefully acceptable using bit of filler and high-build. I left the left and right ends unwelded for final flange hammer/dolly and panel alignment/flatness.
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