been out working on it again the butane torch was no better than the fire bucket unfortunatly, was still hard to keep the wire hot enough, have been out at the shed from 7 until now, we've had a blackout since about 2.30 this morning, had 8 since jan 1st, so got the little generator out and used the soldering iron, but i preferr the the hot wire, its kinda like oxy welding, ive made progress, not enough to just paint, so ill keep trying, few little imperfections/dints, but its a big improvement, also fixed the lighter hole, it had a chunk missing if you look at earlier photos, so far im happy enough with the lighter and headlight sections, but still gotta work on the 2 holes i blocked up, photos are up loading now

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