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Old 05-10-2016, 10:41 AM
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I saw Mike demonstrate his contour maker at the last Dixieland event. Can't say that I can explain it today but I was blown away at the time. Mike is a very, very sharp dude.

Here is my thinking on sweeps. TODAY, it seems like very few cars have a constant radius for the entire panel. That makes a set of sweeps not that valuable and the longer sweep even less so. Think of a typical panel like a front fender of a mid 50's car that starts out with a smaller radius around the headlight and changes to a very large radius toward the door. No single sweep is going to fit.

With Mike's machine, he can duplicate the various segments and attach them together to create a CONTOUR gauge that is a perfect fit.

I like to think that my creativity is pretty high but Mike is so far above me I can't even see him.
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