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Old 05-18-2012, 07:27 PM   #119
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Re: Trying to make Junky perhaps just a little bit Funky...

Mine was the same way how it drifts outward at the front.

From my experience in sheet metal fabrication I would say that is from a number of things. Not using "draw quality" steel, it is softer and stretches better around die formed shapes with less distortion. Steel being thinner than the die was designed for so it slips under high pressure instead of being stamped in place. What we and I imagine other manufacturers do is start with an oversized steel blank and form "die formed" shapes in a punch press and the final operation would be a trim cut in a seperate die that cuts the part true and square. The patches we get to deal with here are oversized, not trim cut. Yes I am a nerd. Check in on you later, gotta get in the garage!
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