I have a sheet metal repair video where the guy shows how to fix those
with a torch, heating them around the dent and cooling it. I'm not
saying that I can do it, as I would want to practice on something else
first to get it right, but it is possible to get those to raise out, no
hammering from behind. The guy on the video calls them hail dents. If
interested, I'll dig up where I bought them, a guy named Larry Lyles
from my Auto Restorer magazine.
Filling them would probably be easier, but it did not take him long per
dent to repair them.
Good luck,
Ed Miller
'58 Apache short bedless wonder (redoing bed wood)
Larry Ryan wrote:
>From: Ryan Sain <rsain@gte.net>
>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
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