Lateral-g Forums - Body Work

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Originally Posted by NOVA1958 (Post 395295)

I agree with getting the metal as straight as possibly but when I keep tapping seems as if I create more issue like the spots gets flexibly then I have to fix that and believe me I'm no body man.I have issues when to stretch and when to shrink those soft spots.Can some please tell me how to determine what to do when it comes to that and how you do it (what tools etc.)

Thanks for the help.

This is not going to be very nice to say -- and I don't want to come across as being an ass... so please don't take it that way... but it's impossible for anyone to teach bodywork over the internet. Working metal is something that takes experience and somebody right there showing you all the nuances. Basics such as "that's not a dent - it's stretched metal"... that's easy - but how to work the metal from one area (the high spot) back to the low spot (the stretch) = dude that takes a bunch of skills....

Are you anywhere near a Community college that has an auto body class at night or weekends? Or maybe go around to the body shops in your area and see if you can't trade out some manual labor for some help? I used to stack bumpers and sweep the floors and straighten up -- and chip bondo off the floors etc years ago... and the guys taught me how to do a bunch of stuff just because they knew I was interested. So just thinking out loud here... that maybe just asking around there?