ruffkin gauntlet question???

im looking at the ruffkin rotj gauntlets i picked up awhile back and it appears when they were fiberglassed it pulled out ( bowed)the edges on the bottom halves. to a point where if i trim them down to get the alighnment right with the tops basically they wont fit my arms nemore and i will loose the overlap the top outside would have with the bottom. so my question is: has anyone been able to re-shape the gauntlets after being glassed?? and if so what methods were used??? id really appreciate some advice!!
thanks! ~shawn

Eat works if distributed evenly. I don't know how the plastic will be affected though..

Eat or heat. . . whatever you like.

lol while i was eating .... i gave the bottom halves of the gauntlets a bath in hot water for about 10 min, made them plyable enough to bend them w/o damaging the glassing on the interior. so i held it in place while runnig it undercold water for 5 min, so far so good! but if anyone has a different way they tried im curious to hear about it!! thanks for the help fellas!

Well, sounds like the heat/cool method worked out for you.
Was the glass layer actually separating from the outer styrene shells? Or did it just warp the shells a little?

The shells actually warped out about 1/2" on the left one and 5/8" on the right one, but ive moved the left back in place, but im a little worried when i try the right one that it may pop the glass. if that happens ill juts re-glass it i guess.

I'm glad the eating worked out for you

Originally Posted by superjedi

Eat or heat. . . whatever you like.

Originally Posted by GCNgamer128

I'm glad the eating worked out for you

Hey, we're all from the desert southwest ... we eat heat all time time, don't we?!!