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Old 10-15-2013, 10:33 PM
Peter Tommasini Peter Tommasini is offline
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Originally Posted by David Gardiner View Post
Hi Mark, welcome to the forum. That's a tall order!. If you cant get a dolly inside you will not be able dress the distortion. Welding something like a doorskin without warping it in the first place is pretty much impossible too. There really are no shortcuts to getting a good job. A new skin is often the best way of repairing doors, failing that joining using a welding method that causes little distortion and putting the joint in a place that will resist distortion is usually the best solution.

Often it is necessary to cut away some of the inner frame so you can get in with a dolly.

David

Mark... what David said is very true...
unfortunaly that's the way it is
Peter
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