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Old 06-08-2011, 10:27 PM   #26 (permalink)
Davebave
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Mice job on the belly pan! If you ever find too much crinkling noise or movement of your sheet metal a good fix is to dimple it with a hammer all over. It doesn't affect wind flow much and provides a lot of support with no weight gain, same as on old airplanes.

For any of you do-it-yourself fabricators, you can even dimple the sheet metal before bending it to the belly and it will retain it's bent shape much better. I used this technique to replace the whole floor of a car with trashed duct work.
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