Advice needed on manifold repair

when people talk about manifold door stops on here, this is what they mean.

you could repair it, but the cost to do so would far outstrip what you could source another one for. and even then, i'd be wary of any aftereffects-- ie warp from repair, unseen damage that didn't get repaired.

unless it was 1000% numbers matching car with crazy low miles and super duper OG, then that thing is fit for the bin.
Yeah, that would end up on my "keeper" junk pile. I've got some mismatched junk heads, a cracked 318 block, etc. to go with it. Someday I'm going to clean them all up, put it together and make a coffee table out of it. Well, if I can sneak it in past the wife...