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Actually they work well, sometimes you have to hold the clamp square with long nose plies while pulling the clamp open. A little false advertisement here by performance tool. Every brand I have ever bought the cable stretches and you run out of adjustment after doing big band clamps. I cut slots...
Power grips or the gates spring loaded constant tension clamps if you do not care about looks. Sometimes the factory style clamps do not work well because the hose is thinner and you need one size smaller clamps. McMaster-Carr has them.
I feel for you, I have been in the same boat and am lucky now to have the plater and polishers local that do perfect work, or call you and say no dice. I see there is a nice set of polished 73 vinyl top drip rails on the bay, you could panel bond a piece of .050-.060 wire to the top or bottom...
Sounds like you will need to find new mouldings, you really only get one shot at straightening/sanding thwm, then they get thin. Getting them off another car with minimal damage is going to be the hardest part. Those are tough ones.
I would send them back to him and tell him to fix them.
Was it a vinyl top car to begin with? Vinyl moldings are wider than non vinyl, and will not hook tightly. I tried to take a set off of a non vinyl 73 decades ago, new were not available so I stopped and painted around them, they are tight...
The only way I have had success with grills is to plastic weld abs plastic back in to the missing area, and finish with bondo. You can buy the welder at harbor freight, basically a soldering iron, and abs plastic in sheets or rods on ebag. You can heat pieces of wire and screen for...