{"id":52,"date":"2009-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T22:39:57","slug":"f100bodyfeel-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Feel the Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really wanted to learn how to do heat shrinking properly after messing about with a shrinking disc and not being happy with the results. Knowing nothing about gas torches, I decided I&#8217;d rather play it safe and buy new stuff than set myself on fire. A quick chat with the welding supplies place round the corner from work and I bought a load of bits and rented some more bottles. With it all bolted together, I was still not convinced I wouldn&#8217;t burn myself and nervously lit the torch. I had made a test piece to shrink from an old bit of hood that I beat the heck out of with a ball pein hammer to get about an inch deep stretch in it. I gently heated it to cherry red, then hammer and dollied it flat. And that was it, done. I was amazed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/Oxy-Acetylene-Kit.jpg\" alt=\"Oxy-Acetylene Kit\" width=\"443\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Convinced that it was a fluke, I got another scrap piece and did the same. To my amazement it came out spot on as well. At that point I decided I may as well have a go at one of the front wings. They were in a pretty sorry state, with a few bad tears, and were stretched really badly where I had tried to repair them with just hammer and dollies. After a few hours of heating, hammering and some gas welding (which I really like for some odd reason) I was miles further forward despite them looking like they had been in a fire. I even managed to get rid of the&#8221;oilcan&#8221; in the bead that made the bottom quarter pop too far in or out. Another thing to add to the list of &#8220;if only I&#8217;d bought one years ago I&#8217;d be miles ahead&#8221;. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/drupal.project55.co.uk\/sites\/all\/modules\/wysiwyg\/tinymce\/jscripts\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/img\/smiley-smile.gif\" alt=\"Smile\" title=\"Smile\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/Roast-Wing.jpg\" alt=\"Roasted Wing\" width=\"443\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really wanted to learn how to do heat shrinking properly after messing about with a shrinking disc and not being happy with the results. Knowing nothing about gas torches, I decided I&#8217;d rather play it safe and buy new stuff than set myself on fire. A quick chat with the welding supplies place round the corner from work and I bought a load of bits and rented some more bottles. With it all bolted together, I was still not convinced I wouldn&#8217;t burn myself and nervously lit the torch. I had made a test piece to shrink from an old bit of hood that I beat the heck out of with a ball pein hammer to get about an inch deep stretch in it. I gently heated it to cherry red, then hammer and dollied it flat. And that was it, done. I was amazed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/Oxy-Acetylene-Kit.jpg\" alt=\"Oxy-Acetylene Kit\" width=\"443\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Convinced that it was a fluke, I got another scrap piece and did the same. To my amazement it came out spot on as well. At that point I decided I may as well have a go at one of the front wings. They were in a pretty sorry state, with a few bad tears, and were stretched really badly where I had tried to repair them with just hammer and dollies. After a few hours of heating, hammering and some gas welding (which I really like for some odd reason) I was miles further forward despite them looking like they had been in a fire. I even managed to get rid of the&#8221;oilcan&#8221; in the bead that made the bottom quarter pop too far in or out. Another thing to add to the list of &#8220;if only I&#8217;d bought one years ago I&#8217;d be miles ahead&#8221;. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/drupal.project55.co.uk\/sites\/all\/modules\/wysiwyg\/tinymce\/jscripts\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/img\/smiley-smile.gif\" alt=\"Smile\" title=\"Smile\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Truck\/Misc\/Roast-Wing.jpg\" alt=\"Roasted Wing\" width=\"443\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-f-100","category-f-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}