Pulling out a dent?
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RE: Pulling out a dent?
Sorry - Old school body-shop lingo 
If you dent a beer can (showing my age with oil cans) it usually leaves a crease in the can. And even when you pop it out the crease, the line around it, remains. If there is no crease in the dent (oil can) it can be popped out without (hopefully) any trace.
BTW - no speel check on this - kinda flying blind on English - sorry...
If you dent a beer can (showing my age with oil cans) it usually leaves a crease in the can. And even when you pop it out the crease, the line around it, remains. If there is no crease in the dent (oil can) it can be popped out without (hopefully) any trace.
BTW - no speel check on this - kinda flying blind on English - sorry...
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RE: Pulling out a dent?
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Sorry - Old school body-shop lingo
If you dent a beer can (showing my age with oil cans) it usually leaves a crease in the can. And even when you pop it out the crease, the line around it, remains. If there is no crease in the dent (oil can) it can be popped out without (hopefully) any trace.
BTW - no speel check on this - kinda flying blind on English - sorry...
Sorry - Old school body-shop lingo
If you dent a beer can (showing my age with oil cans) it usually leaves a crease in the can. And even when you pop it out the crease, the line around it, remains. If there is no crease in the dent (oil can) it can be popped out without (hopefully) any trace.
BTW - no speel check on this - kinda flying blind on English - sorry...
As far as I can tell there is no crease in the dent. Also, it's not really deep. Hard to see unless you look from just the right angle, but you can definitely see it and you can feel it.
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RE: Pulling out a dent?
yup blow dryer good idea guys, ive always seen it on car hoods and you could use the torch on the underside so there wasnt any paint messin. sounds like you got the fix man good luck, let us know how it goes
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RE: Pulling out a dent?
In my experience with removing tank dents, I have found only two solutions, and I have used them both.
First is to drain the tank and use a dent puller to pop it out. That is finished with body filler and a complete paint job on the tank.
The second option is to drain the tank, and then light a match and drop it in. I do not recommend this one however. When I did it to a dented oil tank (that was washed out with solvent before) sticking an acetalyene torch into the neck blew the large dent out to perfection, however it did not stop there because it also split the tank seam wide open at the front. Then I had an ordeal of a welding job to repair the split seam. Oh, did I mention that it startled me when it blew?
Point of story: You may want to consider living with the small dent. There is no magic way that I have ever seen to get back as it was, except by doing that first suggestion I made above.......pg
First is to drain the tank and use a dent puller to pop it out. That is finished with body filler and a complete paint job on the tank.
The second option is to drain the tank, and then light a match and drop it in. I do not recommend this one however. When I did it to a dented oil tank (that was washed out with solvent before) sticking an acetalyene torch into the neck blew the large dent out to perfection, however it did not stop there because it also split the tank seam wide open at the front. Then I had an ordeal of a welding job to repair the split seam. Oh, did I mention that it startled me when it blew?
Point of story: You may want to consider living with the small dent. There is no magic way that I have ever seen to get back as it was, except by doing that first suggestion I made above.......pg
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