Dent removal

[Redteg]

Anybody ever tried this?

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/05/29/video-car-dent-removal-with-hair-dryer-and-compressed-air/

[guessinthe2000]

I'm on the dent busines... I'm pretty sure it only works with huge dents... not the small ones. If that's the case you can use the pump machines and then pull on it. I'll try it tomorrow and let you know. I know I saw a similar thing just that they said to do it on cold weather and a hair dryer... but is the same concept with carbon d.

[Bedlam]

I've never seen a CO2 air duster...? Or maybe they dont know the chemistry behind "canned air" either. :p

[guessinthe2000]

I'm at work at it doesn't seem to work with smaller dents... You would need to have a big dent like the one they show to make this happen. Also as you can see on the video the dent is more of a push dent which is easy to pop out. Most dents aren't like that...

[Weston-work]

Yeah, all it's doing is heating and then cooling the metal to make it contract, which pops the dent out. You can do it with dry ice too... http://www.gadgetjq.com/dentremoval.htm

[guessinthe2000]

Yeah, all it's doing is heating and then cooling the metal to make it contract, which pops the dent out. You can do it with dry ice too... http://www.gadgetjq.com/dentremoval.htm

yeah dry ice is the first way they started doing the heating/cooling process

[FerioEX]

Huh plungers work pretty well to get big dents out too.

[hatchbackgirl]

wow, that's pretty cool

So it won't work for small dents? (door dings?)

[95eghatch]

no i work at a collision shop and we tried it on a small dent it wont work all it is is work hardening the metal by heating it up then freezing it

[guessinthe2000]

no i work at a collision shop and we tried it on a small dent it wont work all it is is work hardening the metal by heating it up then freezing it

true that! I tried it on small dents and nothing... Most people don't get huge dents like those... what shop do you work at?

[95eghatch]

i work at kraftsmen collision in the springs we have the most contracts with insurance comnpanies than any other shop in the springs and hertz and enterprise aswell we do high end expensive work.very rarely does any one get a huge dent like that and if you do and can access the back you can normally pop it by hand back and forth.and it can damage the paint if you heat it up and cool it.it will splinter.

[guessinthe2000]

for insurance we get all the all state contracts... I work at dentworks, is pretty chill because right now we are getting some hail cars from that one hail from like two weeks ago. There is some people going to Wisconsin from work.. I guess they got hit really bad with hail...

[95eghatch]

cool do you guys do the hail damage pdr or what or refinish it?

[guessinthe2000]

yeah the hail damage PDR... whenever something is way bad were we can't fix it we tell the customer that it has to be taken to a bodyshop(we don't try it unless is going to look PERFECT!)

[95eghatch]

the dentworks in the springs by platte and chelton area ??

[guessinthe2000]

nope.. the one in denver over by I25 and Arapahoe...