I'm trying to put some tie-downs on a STRV-103C so I can thread some dental floss through and over some tools so I have to raise the middle portion. I've tried holding the middle down on some scrap stryene and pushing the ends down but I end up warping the ends. A little more success holding the middle with some needle nose pliers and moving the ends but I think I either need some rather wide end surgical clamps to hold the middle or some flat header tweezers with a decent grip on the inside of the ends.

Anybody else have any tips?

Thanks,
Paul

Where's the smiley face smacking it's head into a wall?

I use your second method. I use a tweezer with sliding lock to hold the tie down. I then fold the sidedown making a 'U' shape . Last I take another set of tweezers w/o sliding lock and bend the legs to shape. My sliding locktweezer has a slight wedge shape, ao the further vbacl along the tweezer, the less leg nad more body you get.

Josh Aka shiryon