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Getting ready to dimple W-902 (inboard top skin)
Here’s my dimplin’ table. It ain’t fancy, but it’ll work. The 2 chunks of four inch foam rubber just happen to be the same height as the top of the female dimple in the C Frame dimpler, which make the skin lay perfectly level on the bottom dimpler. I had a friend who made a fancy dimpling table where the C Frame dimpler went under the table top and the female dimpler popped up through a hole in the middle of the table. A very impressive and nicely built table, BUT, when he wacked the C Frame dimpler with his dead blow hammer, the skin when down into the table hole and made a nice round circular (large) indention around the dimple. His advice to me was, don’t do that.

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