I bought it like this. I didn't think it would be a big deal to heat it with a torch and bend it back but even with it glowing red and a big pipe wrench and 5 ft cheater pipe I can't get it to budge. It's 1 inch plate by the way. Any advice from you smart fellas?
MORE HEAT!!! Nice rosebud tip at full blast will move it.
haha I just noticed the title and its too late to fix. sorry guys was typing on my phone. Obviously taulgstr = tailgate
I’ve never done that…….
It's not to late for a fix. I can't type for **** on my phone either.
Thank you!
1" steel, glowing red ain't gonna be hot enough to bend, you're going to have to heat it until it's bright orange/yellow before it says "I give". That plate of steel is going to require a good bit of heat from a rosebud head to heat enough to bend.
Want to make damn sure it bends, heat it till a magnet won't stick it to, but better get ready to quench it with oil or something.
Get the fellow who bumped it with the track hoe bucket to bump it the other way.
Been scratching my head trying to figure out how they bent the thing in first place. You could be onto something.
Nothing wrong with kerfing it and re welding after you get it straight either. Pipe wrench might not be up to the job, I might weld a lever to it and use a chain and ratchet binder to the other side, or just a couple chains and ratchet binders. Or a big hammer?
It's actually not hard, just come swinging around a foot too low with a decent sized hoe. Why not just cut it off and weld new stock on?
Why should you quench it after?