Along with the usual stuff, I found 2 cresent wrenches handy for
tweaking the waves out. I think mine are aftermarket bumpers, so it
wasn't hard to work with the metal, though it wanted to "bounce" back.

If one wants to paint them, I found a belt sander really useful for
roughing them up. (actually stripped them down to the Cadmium plating
pretty quickly) They ain't perfect, but.....

these:

http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/BadBumpers.jpg/BadBumpers-full.jpg

became these:

http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/Bumper1.jpg/Bumper1-full;init:.jpg

Neil.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> --this is very
> important--a big crescent wrench.