Fixing Small Dents in Leading Edge

[Daveembry]

Just as I was beginning to start painting my wings I noticed that I had gotten a couple of dents in the leading edge of one of them. I'm not sure how it happened but I think it was when we were moving them to the paint booth. Anyway what we found is some advice from my friend who does lots of bodywork and he said to take a small block of wood and hold it right in the center crease of one side of the dent and then take a rubber mallet and lightly tap decrease on the opposite side and go back-and-forth. It took very little tabs of the rubber hammer and the dent just moved right out and went away perfectly. Needless to say, I was quite happy and thought I would pass this along. (Note that in the photos here, I have already fixed the dents but you can see where they were and the top and bottom creases that I put the board on and tapped with the mallet)

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