<VV> Body advise/metal shrinking

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

I use them too - but there is a limit to what they can achieve, as I found 
out to my cost with my VW Golf. They shrank one dent to perfection, but when 
someone in a car park put a bigger one in the guy wrinkled his nose and said 
he didn't think he could remove it 100%, but that he would try, and if he 
only achieved 99% I wouldn't have to pay anything.

He achieved about 97%, and I didn't have to pay. I will remove the small 
crease he left by skimming it with bondo. Specifically, he stated that the 
reason he couldn't get bit of the remaining small crease was because the 
metal had stretched...

Cheers

Alan



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane, Jim" <Jim.Duane at it.BAESystems.com>
To: "John Dozsa" <jdozsa at carr.org>; "Virtual Vairs" 
<virtualvairs at corvair.org>; <LonzoVair at aol.com>; <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 5:46 PM
Subject: RE: <VV> Body advise/metal shrinking


> How do the "dentwizard" dudes do this?  I had it done to a small ding on
> my Tahoe door.  All gone!
>
> Jim Duane
> '66 180 Corsa CVT
> Colonial Corvairs
> CORSA
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
> [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of John Dozsa
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 11:00 AM
> To: Virtual Vairs; LonzoVair at aol.com; alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk
> Subject: Re: <VV> Body advise/metal shrinking
>
> LonzoVair at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:31:42 EDT
>> From: LonzoVair at aol.com
>> Subject: Re: <VV> Body advise/metal shrinking
>> To: alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk, virtualvairs at corvair.org
>> Message-ID: <191.41a0a015.2fe7a0ae at aol.com>
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>>
>> Hey guys,
>> When I was a kid (and to Smitty I reckon I still am) I can remember my
>
>> Grandpa taking the hail dents out of the hood of my "step-Granny's"
>> Buick... a big Electra 225, late 60s model... he took the propane
>> torch and a block of dry ice, heated up the spot and rubbed the dry
>> ice over it... it amazed the crap outta me, but I was probably only 7
>> if I was that old (that would put it in the early 1970s)... as for
>> being perfect, well, I was just a kid, so I can't testify to the
> "perfectness" of Grandpa's result, but it was really cool to watch.
>
> SNIP...
>
> The modern way to shrink steel body metal is to use friction heat.  A
> metal disk is attached to a disk grinder.  When the rotating disk is
> applied to the body it heats the high spots hotter that the rest of the
> metal.  Just what you want.  See an amateur video of the technique at:
>
> <http://metalshapers.org/101/index.shtml>
>
> Look for "Shrinking Disk".  Lots of other helpful metalworking
> techniques there also.
>
> John Dozsa
>
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