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I was working on a little beater 45a Vauxhall Victor. Everything was going well, the body had no flaws and painted up nicely. Then, I found a nice set of metal wheels to replace the worn plastic ones. All I needed to do was straighten the bent tow hitch.

I usually use a little alcohol lamp to heat the metal, but this time I was having a hard time getting the hitch warm enough. I grabbed my propane torch and figured a couple passes over the hitch would do the trick. Unfortunatly for me (and the Vauxhall's base) I failed to notice I had a bottle of Mapp gas on the torch. Things quickly began going "not so well" and I melted off the back half of the base as fast as you can say "fail."

Now I'm looking for someone who has a spare base or an entire beater 45a for sale.

Joe, I may have one I will check tomorrow and send you a pm...you got to watch out for that mapp gas

I could use some of that Mapp gas to destroy some Bulgarian Superfasts, then Hungarian and then the rest of the world!!!!!!!......MWAHAHAHAHA....MWAHAHAHAHA

You can melt them down with a simple propane torch ... just takes a little longer than with the hotter gas compounds.