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Rusty Jones
02-23-2004 19:48:35
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Re: Sheet metal working in reply to Poor Farm Jim, 02-23-2004 17:42:51
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If you can, go to an auto body supplier and buy an "all-purpose dolly", and a decent body hammer, with a round, flat head, not a square head! Clean the surface of the tin with thinner or solvent. You can hammer some of the dings/ dents flat, using the dolly as a back up, behind the surface. To shrink, you need either an acetylene/ oxygen welding outfit, or a hot propane torch! Grind the paint off the surface to bare metal. Heat a small spot in the center of the dent, an inch or two,red hot, use the dolly to bump the metal out, or in, and use the body hammer to flatten it out as best you can, against the dolly! It will take several applications of heating to do it. You'll never get it perfectly smooth, you'll have to grind it and fill it with plastic, and sand it with a sanding board, to get the final smooth finish! Some small dents can be brought up by heating the dent, and slopping a thoroughly wet rag on it, but this doesn't work all of the time! And, why the auto body hammer, you ask? Because the ball pein hammer is rounded, where the body hammer is relatively flat! And, the dolly has several areas to give you better control over your working the metal! Rusty Jones
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