Golf Echo
Active Member
Accurately feathering the trigger on a pneumatic squeezer is a very useful skill in producing nice dimples on the rib flanges. Unfortunately, it's a skill I apparently still need to work on...
I closed the dies a little too quickly, with a little too much misalignment. About 1 diameter of misalignment. This, of course, made a rather funny looking hole(s)/dimple. Two flat sets in the squeezer flattened this out nicely. But, as you might expect, when I re-dimpled (this time, without the misalignment and twitchy trigger finger) the material around the dimple tore due to the damage from the initial misaligned dimple. I had tried to file/scotchbrite before dimpling the second time to remove any stress concentrations, but I think the initial goof-up did me in.
So, I imagine I need a new rib (VS-706 -- $7.90), but I thought I'd throw it before the court for any other ideas before I pull the trigger on ordering a new one. Thoughts?
The evidence:
I closed the dies a little too quickly, with a little too much misalignment. About 1 diameter of misalignment. This, of course, made a rather funny looking hole(s)/dimple. Two flat sets in the squeezer flattened this out nicely. But, as you might expect, when I re-dimpled (this time, without the misalignment and twitchy trigger finger) the material around the dimple tore due to the damage from the initial misaligned dimple. I had tried to file/scotchbrite before dimpling the second time to remove any stress concentrations, but I think the initial goof-up did me in.
So, I imagine I need a new rib (VS-706 -- $7.90), but I thought I'd throw it before the court for any other ideas before I pull the trigger on ordering a new one. Thoughts?
The evidence: