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From: North of Toronto - Ontario
Team Owner
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From: Westminster Maryland
Hi Mooser,
Here's my suggestion.
The member who has it now sends you $10 rental, plus YOUR cost of shipping it to HIM.
He then sends it to the next user who sends YOU $10, and the cost of shipping to the PERSON who sent it to him.
Everyone who uses it then pays $10 rental to YOU and shipping to the PREVIOUS user as it moves around. A little work for each user to mail the 2 envelopes, and then the tool, but probably worth the effort. The expense for each user might be about 1/3rd the cost of buying the tool when they were available.
So maybe you'll end up with $50 bucks for your effort and the tool.
The only problem is I don't know who covers the cost of finally shipping it back to you when there are no more interested users?!? Is this when the kids type.... FAIL?
Regards,
Alan
Here's my suggestion.
The member who has it now sends you $10 rental, plus YOUR cost of shipping it to HIM.
He then sends it to the next user who sends YOU $10, and the cost of shipping to the PERSON who sent it to him.
Everyone who uses it then pays $10 rental to YOU and shipping to the PREVIOUS user as it moves around. A little work for each user to mail the 2 envelopes, and then the tool, but probably worth the effort. The expense for each user might be about 1/3rd the cost of buying the tool when they were available.
So maybe you'll end up with $50 bucks for your effort and the tool.
The only problem is I don't know who covers the cost of finally shipping it back to you when there are no more interested users?!? Is this when the kids type.... FAIL?
Regards,
Alan
Former Vendor
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From: Jeffersonville Indiana 812-288-7103
St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15
Mooser.. I think you did an outstanding job on this and to be honest it may have turned out better than the last one I did.
I've always welded a pull bar to them and pulled them out.. (shown below)..Very time consuming and tedious work. I like your idea and from the pictures you did a great job!
I've always welded a pull bar to them and pulled them out.. (shown below)..Very time consuming and tedious work. I like your idea and from the pictures you did a great job!
Former Vendor
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 76,656
Likes: 1,851
From: Jeffersonville Indiana 812-288-7103
St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15
Hi Mooser,
Here's my suggestion.
The member who has it now sends you $10 rental, plus YOUR cost of shipping it to HIM.
He then sends it to the next user who sends YOU $10, and the cost of shipping to the PERSON who sent it to him.
Everyone who uses it then pays $10 rental to YOU and shipping to the PREVIOUS user as it moves around. A little work for each user to mail the 2 envelopes, and then the tool, but probably worth the effort. The expense for each user might be about 1/3rd the cost of buying the tool when they were available.
So maybe you'll end up with $50 bucks for your effort and the tool.
The only problem is I don't know who covers the cost of finally shipping it back to you when there are no more interested users?!? Is this when the kids type.... FAIL?
Regards,
Alan
Here's my suggestion.
The member who has it now sends you $10 rental, plus YOUR cost of shipping it to HIM.
He then sends it to the next user who sends YOU $10, and the cost of shipping to the PERSON who sent it to him.
Everyone who uses it then pays $10 rental to YOU and shipping to the PREVIOUS user as it moves around. A little work for each user to mail the 2 envelopes, and then the tool, but probably worth the effort. The expense for each user might be about 1/3rd the cost of buying the tool when they were available.
So maybe you'll end up with $50 bucks for your effort and the tool.
The only problem is I don't know who covers the cost of finally shipping it back to you when there are no more interested users?!? Is this when the kids type.... FAIL?
Regards,
Alan
Mooser may be the next Trump before it gets back.
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Hi Mooser,
Here's my suggestion.
The member who has it now sends you $10 rental, plus YOUR cost of shipping it to HIM.
He then sends it to the next user who sends YOU $10, and the cost of shipping to the PERSON who sent it to him.
Everyone who uses it then pays $10 rental to YOU and shipping to the PREVIOUS user as it moves around. A little work for each user to mail the 2 envelopes, and then the tool, but probably worth the effort. The expense for each user might be about 1/3rd the cost of buying the tool when they were available.
So maybe you'll end up with $50 bucks for your effort and the tool.
The only problem is I don't know who covers the cost of finally shipping it back to you when there are no more interested users?!? Is this when the kids type.... FAIL?
Regards,
Alan
Here's my suggestion.
The member who has it now sends you $10 rental, plus YOUR cost of shipping it to HIM.
He then sends it to the next user who sends YOU $10, and the cost of shipping to the PERSON who sent it to him.
Everyone who uses it then pays $10 rental to YOU and shipping to the PREVIOUS user as it moves around. A little work for each user to mail the 2 envelopes, and then the tool, but probably worth the effort. The expense for each user might be about 1/3rd the cost of buying the tool when they were available.
So maybe you'll end up with $50 bucks for your effort and the tool.
The only problem is I don't know who covers the cost of finally shipping it back to you when there are no more interested users?!? Is this when the kids type.... FAIL?
Regards,
Alan
Just kidding. mike...
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From: North of Toronto - Ontario
Mooser.. I think you did an outstanding job on this and to be honest it may have turned out better than the last one I did.
I've always welded a pull bar to them and pulled them out.. (shown below)..Very time consuming and tedious work. I like your idea and from the pictures you did a great job!
I've always welded a pull bar to them and pulled them out.. (shown below)..Very time consuming and tedious work. I like your idea and from the pictures you did a great job!
If I was any good with kittyhair, I may not have bothered trying to pull the dents.All kidding aside, it's really pretty good at getting most of a dent out fairly quickly. Getting the smaller dents and creases out that could drive a person over the edge.
I probably should have stopped after I got close and put down a thin layer of filler instead.
Whoever came up with this idea in the first place, hats off to you, it works surprisingly well
Mooser
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From: Wichita Kansas
Melting Slicks
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From: Wichita Kansas
Me too. Hard to believe that the first to dent it didn't know it and say to him/herself, "Hey, that looks bad, let's not do that anymore" and take proper measures. Oh well....
Crackin' on...
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From: Somewhere in Tucson AZ
St. Jude Donor '09
Safety Car
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From: WI
If you (or other enthusiasts) wanted to remove some of the remaining sharp dents on the edges, what I've done is weld a 1/4" bolt in the dent and use an implement to 'pull' it out. Apply some heat to it if need be (acetylene torch). An eyelet with a rod through it works as a pulling mechanism, or if you have a slide hammer use that. Then when you've pulled out the dent, cut the weld off with a cut-off tool and go to the next one, till they're all worked out.
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Last edited by Mark G; Apr 23, 2020 at 04:20 PM.
