The gotcha dimples in the VS skin.

[60av8tor]

Originally Posted by unitink72

I emailed Vans about this issue as I think it's a pretty big deficiency in the plans. They said its in section 5 (is that right?), but I don't recall seeing it. It gets most people, in my view it needs to be mentioned in section 6

It's definitely in there


Like some others, I was aware of it, ground off an amount to where I was beginning to worry about the flange material becoming too thin, and I still got some slight outies. Drove me nuts initially - thought I'd rebuild the VS at some point because of them. Several years later, I can't even notice them.

[RandyAB]

[quote=Several years later, I can't even notice them.[/QUOTE]

Thank Jon. Good to know!

Randy

[tims88]

I had a similar experience but I read and re-read (several times) the part in section 5 about this issue and I still ended up with small dimples. It makes me feel a little better knowing that so many others have the dimples too even though they knew they needed to shape the nose ribs some more.

PS - If you haven't dimpled the skins yet, be careful with the holes closest to the leading edge (these were the dimples I thought the thread was about when I saw the subject). I used the DRDT-2 with the male die on the bottom and ended up bending the skin a little around those holes. I think putting the male die on the top so that the skin wasn't flexed so much around the top of the DRDT may have prevented this.

[iwannarv]

Does somebody have a photo showing the skin on and dimples showing for a visual?

[unitink72]

Originally Posted by iwannarv

Does somebody have a photo showing the skin on and dimples showing for a visual?

http://n67sc.blogspot.com/2016/12/ve...st-rivets.html

I didn't take a pic of the skin but there is one of the ribs.

[A-Ron]

Has anyone had the guts (or crazy enough) to give the protrusion a nice controlled whack with some something spherical to dent it in, then fill it with bondo or something like it? This crosses my mind daily when I look at my two protrusions.

[rocketman1988]

I'm guessing if you gave it a whack you would end up doing more damage than good...this is experimental, though, so if you give it a try make sure to post your results!