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04-13-2020, 11:15 PM | #26 |
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Re: Newb asking for fender dent repair advice?
The rest of that rear fender looks about pristine. Don’t know that I’d do any pounding on it. Cut it out and make a new patch. C’mon Greg, be proud... link your work!
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...ight=Dan+shady
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04-14-2020, 10:40 AM | #27 |
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04-14-2020, 10:48 AM | #28 |
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progress pics of the driver side fender, I am not showing you this to brag, I know I suck I am learning, the point is that I want to show that I am not just a keyboard jockey or a couch potato but that I actually do things and try things, and break things, and mess stuff up, or sometimes I make them a little better, you get the idea
not making any excuses for my shady work, but I swear this fender is much straighter now despite how the shades, different colors, and the dirty marks make it appear to be in these pics, honest, it's what I call hammer and dolly ready, ha ha |
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04-14-2020, 01:53 PM | #30 |
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Sorry, too many Gregs..
The link I put in that post shows Greg's (Mongocanfly) efforts in making a replacement for that same spare tire area... Check it out..
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04-18-2020, 09:53 AM | #32 |
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well this sucks... found out today that the sand bag I ordered is UNDELIVERABLE, could this be one of them "May cause California in the state of Cancer" things, where they refuse to ship it to us here, ha ha
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04-18-2020, 12:25 PM | #33 |
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I bet they'd really frown on a bag of lead shot...
Might try ebay... https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-SET-6-9...edirect=mobile
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04-18-2020, 01:42 PM | #34 |
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so my tools showed up and I must say I am a little bumbed, they are so small, toy like, here are some pics with my average size hands for reference, the hammer feels really light, not sure if it's supposed to be like that, maybe that's the whole point since you have to swing it a bazillion times, the handle is really short as well, much shorter than a regular hammer
for the money I spent on these $100 total I could have bought two Harbor Freight body hammer kits, ha ha, but I ain't complaining, I am learning, and just providing you all with some feedback, that's all, thank you for reading |
04-18-2020, 03:45 PM | #35 |
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well since our leather sand bag won't be showing up any time soon, we move on to the inner front fenders
in order to mount my radiator core support bracket I need to flatten out these indentations, what are the best ways to go about it, I'm thinking of slicing a relief cut or two? |
04-18-2020, 07:29 PM | #36 |
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hammer and dolleys arnt gonna be real heavy ...just remember ..your massaging the metal...
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so here's the route I took
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04-19-2020, 09:41 AM | #39 |
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with the cuts made, I did some hammering (aka the fun part) and saw the gaps close up and even buckle in some places - very interesting, shows the process is working
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04-19-2020, 09:42 AM | #40 |
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so I followed the same lines and re cut them open for the second time
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04-19-2020, 09:48 AM | #41 |
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then I welded them up, and here I observed an interesting phenomenon, the metal sunk down along the beads, I don't know if it was returning to it's original shape or if hot melted metal was being pulled down by gravity, all I know is that once completely nice and flat metal now became concave (FYI, I used more clamps than shown)
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Re: Newb asking for fender dent repair advice?
This is a good book for those learning
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Covell is a master...
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04-19-2020, 03:56 PM | #46 |
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absolutely, the Bob Ross of metal shapping, I love his 2 minute cut aways, he's like "... and here we have a 18 gauge piece of scrap metal ... [2 minutes later with a hand crank bead roller] ... and now we have a set of custom embossed door panels, I think they looks sensational I couldn't have done it without those custom made dies I just quickly made"
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04-29-2020, 01:26 PM | #48 |
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I took a class with him and he is one of the nicest people I have ever met.
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04-29-2020, 05:15 PM | #49 |
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Re: Newb asking for fender dent repair advice?
Seems like all the people that do metalwork are laid back easy going folks..I guess you have to be...
Me?..I'd have a scrap pile of metal as big as my shop...haha
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