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Time to start a’ whackin’!

The two chunks of foam rubber work perfectly. I even pulled out a third chunk of foam rubber to help support the skin when things got a little weird, dimpling wise that is. I gave each dimple one good "WHACK" with the dead blow hammer. As I mentioned in the previous page entry, whenever I hit the dimple more than once, it seemed to indent the skin around the dimple (at least that has been my experience). After finishing the dimpling with the C Frame dimpler, I went back over the dimples that didn’t look just right with my pop-rivet dimpler. This made the skin pass the fluorescent light test, with no visible dips in the skin around the dimples.

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