[R-390] Dent removal 101

[Tim Shoppa]

My yellow striper had a corner of the front panel dented in.  I slapped
a couple blocks of hardwood in a vise, put that corner in, and bent
it back nicely.

But I'm having more trouble with the side panels, which have been banged
up on the back corners.  It's not just that there's a bend, but the
metal seems to have been stretched and distorted.  It's like there's
too much metal.

Any tricks to getting it back and flat?  Hammering it would seem to
me to just make it thinner.  I think I can get all the screw-holes
back to where they're supposed to be but I'd prefer to get the metal
back to the point where, I guess, the back of the radio that nobody
sees looks nice too :-).

Maybe the next thing I'll try is sandwiching it between some steel
plate and seeing if I can hammer them into flattening out the aluminum
sides.

Tim.