fixing bowed coin door

[mmmPeanutButter]

I've got an atari coin door and it looks as if somebody kicked it.  I've tried using a hammer on it (carefully so I wouldn't make hammer marks), but I just can't get it right.  It either bows in, or bows out (not flat).

I have a feeling that it's a lost cause.    But I thought I would ask if anybody has some tips that might work.

Thanks.

[Ken Layton]

If you can take everything off the door and take the door off the machine set it on the floor and step on the bowed part. Sometimes it works. You could take the door to an automobile body shop and see what they can do with it.

[SirPeale]

Ken has some good ideas.  Do you have a rubber mallet?  After you remove the door, attempt to bang out the dents on a flat surface.  Of course, this all depends on the severity of the dent/bump and which side of the door it's on.

[Stingray]

You could take the door to an automobile body shop and see what they can do with it.

This is a good suggestion. It can probably be saved but will need to be heated and cooled a few times along with some strategic blows with a body hammer (a process called shrinking).

-S