Removing A Sheet Metal Crease

Using wood you eliminate one of those hard points so the metal can move without stretching.

Removing a sheet metal crease.

Pdr utilizes a variety of techniques to pop out dents and dings and has been around for decades. Getting that much shrink was tough. The best is to use heat a wood hammer and a dolly. Shrinking that crease back into the panel was a pile of work.

This is often called a paintless repair technique. A crease dent is one that is shaped like an elongate oval with a deep recession in the middle of the oval. One involves using a blow dryer or a paint stripper which emits heat to warm the metal of the dent. These dents often occur due to accidents and they are removed using specially designed tools that actually reshape the metal.

The dome door skin wanted to collapse and oil can a lot. Traditional bodywork used to be the only way to fix body damage. With practice a crease can be removed in the same way. Any time you hit sheet metal with steel hammer against a steel dolly it stretches.

How to bend sheet metal without a brake. That job involved pounding out the sheet metal with a hammer or using a sheet metal pull and then required body filler and paint to complete. Sheet metal isn t all that different from a car s bodywork so most methods which will remove dents from a car work for sheet metal. It may be more effective.

On a molecular level the increased heat causes the molecules of the sheet metal to become excited. Shrinking metal is a special technique and there are many ways to do it.