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Tips & Tools
Dimpling aluminum skins: setting up a C-frame, a DRDT-2, a rivet squeezer and close-quarter dies
Cleaveland Tool's instructions set a C-frame's male die 1/16 inch above the table and call for two or three light blows, not one hard one. A squeezer is set with the dies touching and about an inch between the handles. The lever-driven DRDT-2 reaches 22 inches in, up to 0.040-inch aluminum. Close-quarter dies are for holes nothing else reaches.
28 Oct 2026