Joseph Cianciotti wrote:
>
> Showed my vandalized door and lock to a couple of shops today. And at one
> shop, we came upon a novel solution to replacing or reskinning the door.
> Instead of restamping/reshaping the area around the lock to get the bevel
> just right, why not buy a new skin, and cut out and weld a new lock area
> into the old panel. Is this a good idea?
It would work, but seems like a lot more work than putting on
a new skin.
As far as metalwork goes, putting on a new skin is pretty far up
the "EASY" chain. A lot easier than butt welding in a patch and
making it invisible, anyways.
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Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada.
tboicey@brit.ca, http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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