Well, the weather turned to crap this morning. 6" of snow with more on the way. I fired up the heat this morning and had all intentions of finishing off the fenders but just couldn't get motivated. My new O/A regulators arrived yesterday and Not being one to waste a whole day, I decided to make the side molding for the left rear fender. Same process as the others. The curve is done with heat and the shrinker. What I figured out in the process of making these moldings is that if I can heat just a very thin line that is no wider than the skipped teeth in the center of the shrinker jaws, I have a solid bite on the cooler areas and the red hot strip in the middle compresses easily. At first I was heating an area that was large enough to be in the gripping area of the jaws so it was not working well at all. I used a Henrob torch with a number 1 tip and the red hot strip was only about 1/4" to 3/8" wide. Only one more piece of side trim left to make, the left front fender piece that wraps all the way around the front to meet with the grill.
