rayward
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| posted on 19/4/05 at 06:05 PM |
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Dents in ali panels
Hi all,
i've got a few dents in the ali panels on the locost i'm rebuilding, anybody know of some websites with a step by step guide on the
correct way to repaire them??.
I k now i'll probably end up replacin git anyway but would just like to have a go first.
Ray
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chunkielad
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| posted on 19/4/05 at 06:14 PM |
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You could try a shrinking hammer from Frost auto restoration. It turns as hit hit with it hence shrinking the metal and straightening it out.
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SeaBass
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| posted on 19/4/05 at 06:20 PM |
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It also puts nice marks on the panels which are designed to be skimmed and painted over...
Cheers
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dave dickson
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| posted on 19/4/05 at 07:42 PM |
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This is bit of an art-form to do well. Takes LOTS of practice to get right. (and no, I still cant do it right! :p )
The Haynes bodywork repair manual covers this in some basic detail. Its quite a good book actually, lots of usefull stuff in there.
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chunkielad
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| posted on 19/4/05 at 08:55 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by SeaBass
It also puts nice marks on the panels which are designed to be skimmed and painted over...
Cheers
Couldn't you do it from the inside?
Alternatively, the guys I've seen on TV doing Ali repairs have a whole set of tools including flat files, arched files, little 'hitting
sticks' (sorry don't know name) asnd it all seems a bit of a specialist job. If you weren't painting it, I'd leave it or
replace.
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