Of course, while moving the Band Wagon from behind my fence several weeks ago, I was in a rush and didn't notice that the driver's side mirror bracket got caught on my metal fence...it ripped the fence out of the block wall mooring and tore it up pretty good, but what really bothered me was that it pulled the cowling sheet metal out of its spot welds under the hood lip and bent it up pretty badly.
I felt like a total a$$ (still do), but since I'm objective I have to show my screwups as well. I cut out the damaged part of the cowling, hammered it as back to normal as I could, welded in a sheet metal "lip" under the cut for additional strength when rewelding it back into place, and then welded it back into place. It's not as nice as I had hoped for, but the intense summer heat didn't help with keeping the workpiece cool and it warped in places.
I had to straighten out a bracket and a couple of support arms, but after rewelding into place & priming, everything went back together OK. I'll sand the primer in a couple of days to eliminate the intentional runs; the runs are actually covering some surface imperfections and once sanded will look better than just a simple coating.
Sorry Mik, I still can't believe I did this... I'm a total
A$$.
So hopefully my carelessness and terrible welds will scare anyone else off from asking me for help on their projects.