Maybe the pair of Tim’s and a Jimmie D would care to elaborate on how they removed and reinstalled the strip without tearing it up.
I'm going to be in Woody’s shoes in a short while and it never hurts to hear what sort of pain others had to endure.
Right off the bat I can see how easy it would be to kink the corners slipping it out and back in to the opening. You obviously have to fold it into the middle some to make it get it in and out and there is a lot of leverage available at the corners.
Woody, unless I'm missing something, just making a 1/2" x 3" or 4" long piece of flat stock from wood or plastic that would fit snugly in the channel at the joint seems like it would stiffen the frame up enough to work on it. It's the same sort of situation that you have with the tiny channel that goes around the door panels. Once the ends are tied together it gets fairly stiff. I would treat the dents just as I would with a piece of SS trim, i.e., make a hard wood form tool and tap them out against a leather or plastic buck. To do the filing or finishing I would make, again, a board thinned to fit in the channel snugly that I could clamp in the vise. I may have posted this be for but here is a picture of my reworking the door panel frame:
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2807699410098611668hcOjZm As fur as the painting it only makes sense to me, to get a coat of primer and paint on both pieces and after reassembly do the final coat of paint.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
