I agree and a little filler only makes it stronger and eliminates the
posibility of distortion known to the heavier body metals, which can only be
eliminated by grinding thinner and shrinking.
Lee
----- Original Message -----
From: "PeeWee" <PWeee@earthlink.net>
To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Ding spots - covered by other sheet metal?
> I've heard of this but they heat the area up just a little and use a
> plunger type deal to suck or pop up the dent. But I think this it's for
> the new car bodies with a thickness of a piece of paper. I don't think
> it would work on our rigs. Those small little dings on his truck...I'd
> just use some filler.
> Pee-Wee.
>
> Randall J. Krebs wrote:
>
> >Ryan,
> >
> >I was on a Triumph website where they suggest that for hail damage you
could
> >heat up the area at the edge of the dint and it would pop out. Then
> >immediately apply a wet rag to the area. Naturally your paint is burnt.
> >
> >I have not tried this, so . . . . . .
> >
> >Randy
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Bob Chansler" <rchansl@attglobal.net>
> >To: "Ryan Sain" <rsain@gte.net>; "oletrucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> >Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:07 PM
> >Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Ding spots - covered by other sheet metal?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Ryan,
> >>If they're not too deep you can do as Lee recommends and just fill them.
> >>
> >>
> >The
> >
> >
> >>old method of dent pulling is to drill a hole in the metal and put a
screw
> >>in it and use a puller to pull the metal out. Then you have to fill the
> >>hole. The new method is to weld pins to the metal with a stud welder,
pull
> >>out the dent with a puller, and then clip off pins. This new stud welder
> >>
> >>
> >is
> >
> >
> >>about $200 bucks so it may not be worth it for you to buy one just for
one
> >>job. Look at the Eastwood site as Devin recommends and you can see the
> >>
> >>
> >stud
> >
> >
> >>welder.
> >>Not sure what the recommended maximum thickness is for body filler.
> >>Bob Chansler
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Ryan Sain" <rsain@gte.net>
> >>To: "oletrucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> >>Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:30 PM
> >>Subject: [oletrucks] Ding spots - covered by other sheet metal?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Well,
> >>>
> >>>Please look here:
> >>>
> >>>http://www.wsu.edu/~rsain/dingspots.jpg
> >>>
> >>>In this pic (not of my cab - but another list member's) I put some
green
> >>>dots where I have a few small radial type dents. Given that all these
> >>>
> >>>
> >>spots
> >>
> >>
> >>>have a piece of sheet metal covering them on the opposite side of the
> >>>
> >>>
> >>cab -
> >>
> >>
> >>>how the %$^# am I supposed to hammer them out? Or do I?
> >>>
> >>>Should I just cut a little section out of the metal on the inside so I
> >>>
> >>>
> >>have
> >>
> >>
> >>>access then hammer away? Or should I simply fill em and forget em?
> >>>
> >>>None are bigger than .75" in diameter. The truck is a 59
> >>>
> >>>TIA,
> >>>
> >>>- Ryan
> >>>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >Randall J. Krebs
> >
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