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> Tom Pierson, > I have some experience. You can and must do it as you describe from the > inside. Forget anything but removing an interior skin or skins panels as > needed. Forget the painless guy if he is just going drill holes and pound > on it. > > Usually a rib is involved so your straightening sheet metal and structure. > I don't know about the clipper, but it could be like a Streamline and have > a full continuous one piece rib depending on the rib. Streamline ribs are > a one piece horse shoe across the top and down each side. Spartan is not > like that and a lot of Silver Streaks are also like that. The rib must be > slowly straightened with the skin if involved. Do everything a little at a > time from the inside. If you are careful, you do not have to remove > anything on the outside. Don't beat on it direct with a beater. Take the > time to find blocks of wood to hit on and not the skin as it will dink > everywhere you hit it. Just take the time and don't directly hit it. > > Just get out your skill saw and cut up a bunch of 2x4 pieces and political > or tomato stake pieces into little sized pieces and shapes, Keep them > small. As you use them they will form into sort of rounded pieces that > will help in shaping. Use pieces cut to nicely fit a straight section of > rib, then use that piece, C clamps, vise grips, whatever, as inside and > backing to straighten the rib as you straighten the skin panel. Go slow, > little gains at a time then go back and gain more. Don't attempt to > straighten one area and then on to the next as you will only stretch the > metal and make a new problem. > > If you wind up with a stretch wrinkling, use a heat gun with instant cold > to shrink back the metal. This too takes a lot of patience, slow process, > and trial and experience to make the metal smaller, pull tight, and draw > out the wrinkle or wave in the metal. You cannot create a dent without > stretching metal, so the metal of a dent straightened is ultimately too > big when finished. Your pain relief guy should know and be experienced in > the technique. > > Clippers were made by Airstream, Silver Streak, and Streamline. You did > not say which yours is, but you wrote the SS list so I presume SS. SS and > Streamline were a separating of one into two. The construction of both is > superb and often by the same persons switching companies. I have never > worked on a Clipper, so my experiences are limited to Vagabond, Spartan, > Silver Streak, Streamline, Boles Aero, Schult, Curtis Flagship, Holiday > Rambler aluminum rib, GMC, Argosy, and Glider Albatross. I don't like > Airstream so I hate to admit working on those. > > I for one would like a description of the rib piece-meal like Spartan or > solid rib construction of your Clipper so please let us know what you > experience with yours and we will all learn. If you have to remove > exterior rivets, there are Olympic rivets and a shaver to replace those > rivets back to original look. Just use pop rivets for now and then later > it is easy to drill them out and replace with the Olympics. Hope any of > this helps you. > -Eddie- > Houston, TX > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Pierson" <howdy1954@hotmail.com> > To: "silver streak" <sslist@tompatterson.com> > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:50 PM > > >> Hello fellow streakers, >> I'm writing from upper east Tennessee. My name is Tom Pierson and I own >> a >> 1956 Clipper. 21' single axle. I've had it for about 3 years now and >> am >> getting ready to do some restoration work this spring. It has a dent in >> the >> roof just above the rear window from a tree limb falling on it back in >> the >> 60's. ------------------------------------------------------------------ When replying to a message, please delete all unnecessary original text. To unsubscribe or change to a digest format, please go to http://www.tompatterson.com/Silverstreak/List/listoffice.html
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