They used to (and still do over seas i'm told) use Lead as a filler. You pound the metal accordingly and then take a large inget of lead and flow it over the entire area. Once it's hard, you take a file and file it until you start planning the surrounding metal. That's another part of the "lost art"..... -Craig '85GL gone WESTY On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:36 PM, J Stewart <fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "craig cowan" <phishman068@GMAIL.COM> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 6:05:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: Body work question > > The body shop i worked at would try to avoid like the plague "reshaping" > things. We always said "when in doubt, it's better replaced". If insurance > is going to pay, that is THE way to do it. > > > > When i was 14 (that was a LONG time ago) I took an auto body repair class > one summer through my county. The instructor was a retired auto body man. > One day he took a dented fender, and using an assortment of special hammers > and dollies straightened it out good as new and never used any filler. A > lost art, I'm sure. Jeff > ------------------------------------------------------------ + To unsubscribe from the Vanagon List send an e-mail to + listserv@gerry.vanagon.com with SIGNOFF VANAGON + in the body of the message. ------------------------------------------------------------ |
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