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The frames are welded up and re-contoured to match the opening, with the old skins serving to guide the process. Then new skins are cut to match and now we get ready to contour or crown them up, because they are slightly compound shaped, as indicated by a straight edge.

A small wheeling machine crowns them up in 20 minutes, if I make sure to mark the topography, and follow it. Pressures and tracking patterns vary with each job, so I won't go into this detail here.

The leading edge of the panel is then cocked over 10 degrees using the brake, matching the original. Once the rivet distance and layout is figured, (no spot-welding here) it is easy to set up for double dimpling. This job is perfect because the weather-strip will hide all the shop heads and dimples.

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