As my old, coyote trapping, hard drinking, best farmer I knew, bear of a man neighbor used to say,”It’s just metal. Weld it back together if you screw up!”
Good advice. I screwed up some repairs on a mangled fender, just cut it out and started over with a patch. I had never butt welded sheet metal before, but managed to get good reviews on my repairs from a friend who owned a body shop.
His son is a co-worker and had a comment from him on a repair. He said metal is dumb, just work it back where it was.
