Metalworking 101: Fundamentals in Fabrication

Hey sr,

Don't allow yourself to become a prisoner of your pride! All metal skills build on experience, and what a misstep/mistake teaches ya is what won't work, which is as important as what will. Usually those who trash talk or are fecal flingers have little if any real skill, and false pride and trash talk is all they have in their toolbox.

The rear valance panel doesn't look to bad given you've got over 50% of the panel that's in o.k. shape to pattern off of. I'd try to straighten it with the first job being to figger how you will close the gap up between door bottom and the valance panel at the 90 degree flange. A small porta-power or a bfh and a block of wood may move it into position.

The side patch panel looks like a much bigger project given that the panel is damaged all around the patch, as evidenced by all the filler in the panel. This area may well require that you fill in the area all around the patch after you bump up the surrounding damage, and fill in the area to blend the repair.

" Humpty Dumpty was pushed "