How does one "gather the metal"?
Don Malling
Michael D. Porter wrote:
> "T. S. White" wrote:
>
>>Can any of you explain why these Triumph rear fenders might be a little
>>too long.
>
>
> Accident repair seems likely to me. The distance between the mounting holes
>is finite. If the fender were crunched at
> some point, that means it has stretched. If someone removed the fender and
>beat it out, it is then stretched further.
> That means the original distance between mounting points has stretched, as
>well. Compressing the fender to match the
> inner wing mounts causes it to distort in a direction in which it will give
>most easily--and that's the center, over the
> wheel arch.
>
> The correct way to correct this damage is to shrink the metal back to its
>original shape while the wing is still
> attached. Gathering the metal pulls it back to its original thickness so that
>it is dimensionally the same as it was
> before the accident damage.
>
> It's a very common mistake. Did it myself on an old Dodge thirty years ago.
>Never could get the damned fender to fit
> without redrilling the mounting flange.
>
> Cheers.
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