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Old 9th December 2013, 19:44
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Originally Posted by mcramsay View Post
I don't mean to open a can of worms with this one, nor am I discounting the knowledge of any of the builders on the forum, basically I spoke to mark about it yesterday and he then called me on my way home and asked me if I could post up that straightening out the doors should not be done, Kevin the bloke that makes the panels said that his life would be a hell of a lot easier if the doors could be welded flat, but they have a jig that purposely puts a bow of around 10mm in the door, marks reason for this is that the doors fit and look better.
I'm pretty sure my doors were flat? I fitted them as received from Marlin without any modification.

Check out the reflections in the door in this photo of the Sportster I built....



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OK, just a blatant excuse to post another picture
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