Fixing my mistakes, part 1

"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228) 08/17/2013 at 16:34 • Filed to: Bimmer Fix

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I had a bash at pulling out the accident damage. Heated up the points of tension with an oxy-acetylene torch and reshaped it using a combination of a claw hammer, a ball peen hammer, pliers, a pry bar and some mole grips. Before above, and after below.

It's a bit tricky to tell when it's multi-coloured, but once it's had a coat of anti-rust primer you can see that it's reasonably straight now.

I only stopped at this point because it was getting dark and I leant backwards onto the mole grips just after I'd used them for pressing yellow-hot steel. Burn right on the area of skin the flexes when you move your thumb. Ouch.

Again, moron, but I'm fairly pleased with progress so far.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 08/17/2013 at 17:12

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What's happened to the formatting on this one? I meant it to have chunks of text broken up by images.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 08/17/2013 at 18:01

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I usually hit enter twice before and after an image. Seems to work for me.

pianomanzero > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 08/17/2013 at 18:12

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Not a bad job at all! Been dealing with something similar on my fiancées Saturn SL2 after she was involved in a fender bender a week ago. All that's left on ours is to find a new hood and headlight assemblies, paint the new parts, and do the final tweaks to make sure it all lines up right once the hood is attached.

DasWauto > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 08/17/2013 at 18:26

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When the images are less than 640 px wide Kinja shrinks them to 320 px and wraps the text around them. That why I sometimes have to use periods to move text to the appropriate place around images in the best of Oppo.