55 Wagon Progress

[MP&C]

Tonight I trimmed the lower edge of the lift gate to get the final repair part fitted up.








Once both ends of the lift gate were trimmed, looking at the surface profile you can see we need a bit more crown at the ends of the repair part.








To add some crown, the lower flanges on the ends were folded flat and used the Erco to shrink the bottom flange.





The multiple bends toward the top were another story, a 1/4 beading die lightly pushing into a skateboard wheel, and the ends were pushed in and pulled up while exiting. Here's the results...

















Oh yeah.....you can see the top of the welding table again!





Next task on the list will be to form/fold the ends..