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Dentistry

Here’s a tip for fixing the indentation in the skin you get when you pull the bucking bar off prematurely before the rivet gun stops.  Slip a rubber washer over the manufactured head of the rivet in question.  Then using a piece of plywood or 1x2 under the rivet gun, re rivet.  The bucking bar will actually be hitting the rubber washer, gently removing most of the dent while missing (one hopes) the rivet.   In short,  the combination of bucking bar and thick rubber washer makes a neat micro-rubber-mallet and the combination wood and rivet gun supply the hammer action and the give for the skin/rib combonation to move back out towards where it should be.

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