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Finished dimpling and sanding the doubler plate

I did the same routine on the doubler plate. It is thick just like the inboard skin. I did a single solid "whack" with the dead-blow hammer on the C-Frame dimpler and then went back over all the holes with the pop-rivet dimplers to get the craters around the dimples out. I know this routine seems a little extreme with double dimpling the holes, but when I did this on the left wing, the skin looks absolutely perfect when it is riveted on.

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