After finding the new skin did not fit any better than the first, didn't figure it would do much good to whine to Van's any more, so decided to find a way to bend it to the proper shape. The skin is pretty thick, about .062", tough to bend. I "borrowed" a short piece of 2" pipe from a friend in my former field, a fire sprinkler system contractor, clamped it to a heavy bench on the skin at the point to be bent, and pushed the skin up and around the pipe a little way, very difficult. Fortunately, I picked the right spot on the skin to place the pipe, and it curved into the proper shape, or close enough to rivet, anyway. This wasn't even the next item of work in the instruction book, the next item was bending the longerons, but I wasn't psyched up enough to tackle that yet.
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