AST Oops

This is an AST trim tab spar.  Nuthin' fancy - just a piece of angle aluminum with pre-punched rivet holes spaced about an inch apart.

Here I'm spraying it with primer "just because".

Here it is leaning inside the garage door track, you know, so it doesn't fall over between the first and second coats:

This is me getting distracted and completely forgetting about the AST spar (wait for it...)

And here's the 150 lb garage door closing on the spar still leaning inside the door track:

OUCH!

Tried to bend it back into shape but it's a goner.  No way the precision-punched holes will match up to the holes on the trim hinge or the skin.  So it's $8 to replace three soda cans worth of aluminum angle + $7 shipping from Van's.