96mark8
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does anybody have or know of a good place i can rent a fender roller from?
renting a fender roller
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96mark8
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lol nice but i already did that the only one i found was 5o bucks plus shiping. i was looking for somthing cheaper!
NYC LS8
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LMAO...that is hilarious!
^^ To 140*
Or you can buy one from Eastwood for like $300 or go pay a shop $250+ to do it.
I dont want to come off as an azz hole but I am so I do.
And thats what it cost. You have to pay to play. You think someone is gonna send you a $300 to use and abuse for free? Plus he gives you a return shipping lable and a heat gun to do it. Thats the place I rented mine from. Very first link on the page.
Or you can buy one from Eastwood for like $300 or go pay a shop $250+ to do it.
I dont want to come off as an azz hole but I am so I do.
98lincmk7lsc
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I don't know how you expect some place to rent it to you cheaper than that. That's sounds like a pretty good price to me. I got lucky and found one on a local forum. The guy was literally like a mile away from my house and only wanted $40 to rent it. I bought a laser pyrometer for $50, but I figure there'll be more uses for that down the road. Try checking out some local forums. You may luck out and find someone in your area, you never know. In my search for local shops that could do it, I went to and/or called at least 10 different places in the area. It's amazing how many body shops don't know what fender rolling is! Anyway, I ended up finding one place with the tool that would do it for $85 a side, so $170 total. After spending so much time looking, I was almost glad to pay that much, but then I found the local guy on the local forum and went that route instead.
96mark8
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if it was 50 shiped i would jump on it but i dont really wanna pay another 30+ for shiping. o well i think i will just cut them.
CobraStar_LS8
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if you wanna go cheap then get a bat and swing batta batta swing
I for one can understand being on a budget.
But some take this to an unrealistic level.
You have to think, alot of the times you get exactly what you pay for, in more ways than one.
You reant the tool for rolling your fenders, sure it's a little pricey, but it does a fantastic job if you do it right, but then again you can cut the lip too, done right and spending care time with it you can get the same results to an extent, but then you have to look at how much time that cost you.
Your labor is worth monies, if you spent 10 hours cutting them and and doctoring up the edges that was about the same ammount it would have cost you to rent the fender lip roller and you would now be 4 beers up where we are, and you would have stellar custom results, but insted your still over there farting around with your lips and were over there hooting and hollering have a great ole time drink beerz.
Two things either quit being tightasses, and fork over the cash and do it right, or learn how to save the monies and quit rushing things.
I spent two years gathering part for one of my project before even starting it, on my Mudstain I spent another year gathering parts for it while it sat in the shop gathering dust.
I do get in a rush, it gets done when all the parts are gathered and at that point I proceed, the last time I rushed through something bad sh1t happened all over the place and I had no one to blame but me.
And as for the cost of tools, like someone else mentioned, why would I rent you my $300 tool and not expect you to put a $300 deposit down, that insane, that sort of stuff costs us, and if you damage it, you had better excpet to be paying for it.
Come on people,use some common sense here,........ oh yeah that right, now day most people don't know what that is.
Sorry about the harshness, but reality IS harsh, step up, or go back and hide in the basement.
Dr. SVO phd
But some take this to an unrealistic level.
You have to think, alot of the times you get exactly what you pay for, in more ways than one.
You reant the tool for rolling your fenders, sure it's a little pricey, but it does a fantastic job if you do it right, but then again you can cut the lip too, done right and spending care time with it you can get the same results to an extent, but then you have to look at how much time that cost you.
Your labor is worth monies, if you spent 10 hours cutting them and and doctoring up the edges that was about the same ammount it would have cost you to rent the fender lip roller and you would now be 4 beers up where we are, and you would have stellar custom results, but insted your still over there farting around with your lips and were over there hooting and hollering have a great ole time drink beerz.
Two things either quit being tightasses, and fork over the cash and do it right, or learn how to save the monies and quit rushing things.
I spent two years gathering part for one of my project before even starting it, on my Mudstain I spent another year gathering parts for it while it sat in the shop gathering dust.
I do get in a rush, it gets done when all the parts are gathered and at that point I proceed, the last time I rushed through something bad sh1t happened all over the place and I had no one to blame but me.
And as for the cost of tools, like someone else mentioned, why would I rent you my $300 tool and not expect you to put a $300 deposit down, that insane, that sort of stuff costs us, and if you damage it, you had better excpet to be paying for it.
Come on people,use some common sense here,........ oh yeah that right, now day most people don't know what that is.
Sorry about the harshness, but reality IS harsh, step up, or go back and hide in the basement.
Dr. SVO phd
CobraStar_LS8
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Some of us don't have basements, Jeff
mespock
Marxists - Socialists
Where is Frogman when he needs to see this ... LOL
CobraStar_LS8
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Heard he's out of town...Hope he's OK...would've thought he would use someone's computer where he's at to post somethin' on here
kustomizingkid
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I beat Stack's flat with a hammer... but his is getting repainted so it didn't matter if the paint cracked, which it did lol...
chicken
SHEOOOOOOOOT
i asked a body guy at my job to do it..he beat it with a hammer, cold, yup it cracked and looks like crap
i figured if i did it, it would look like crap so i got the body guy so it could be done right.....
kustomizingkid
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i asked a body guy at my job to do it..he beat it with a hammer, cold, yup it cracked and looks like crap
Wow... epic fail... lol
cadillackman
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I cut mine with a $15 angle grinder from Harbor Freight. Then I smoothed it out a little & sprayed the seam with 2 coats of Rustoleum, looks great.
