Another Day...
Alas, another day... another few dollars spent doing something to occupy my overabundant time in purgatory (aka Casper)...
After the ease of the right side tubb, I figured the left side tubb would be no problem-o and take a couple hours tops... there I go thinking again. Things started looking fishy when my cardboard template had a concave curve that the right side template didn't exude...
The first attempt would have left me filling in a 1 inch gap at the rear of the rear well...
Second attempt started looking a lot like the first attempt even though I verified the shape and the fit of the template... So I stopped... waited for Vern to take pitty on me and disassembled the second attempt in order to salvage the sheetmetal...
Third attempt involved the use of a shrinker, lots of hammering and then these miraculous little clamps that Vern found hidden somewhere that do a magnificent job of holding two pieces of sheet metal together so that a single individual can weld said sheet metal without going through a 3-ringed-circus set of acrobatic moves of trying to hold the sheet metal and weld it at the same time all alone....
And behold:
Please pay very little attention to the asymetric aspects of the two tubbs...