today I want to show you how to use a slide hammer to remove a small dent.
Before we start I just wanted to show you with the shine that's still on there
the high areas so when we're pulling right here we're also going to be
wanting to knock down these high areas. So, the first step is to just grind this
clean. After you get it ground clean we're just going to put a little stud
right here and pull from that stud. if you don't have a stud welder you can put
a little hole there and pull it with the screw tip that came with the slide
hammer. to use the stud welder you're just going to press this right against
the metal and hold it for about one second. that's good. then there's a little
thumb wheel right here, okay, you slide it down on there and you pull it back
towards here and now you just don't want to go let me back the camera so you can
see the hole the whole seen. now the important thing to remember is not to go
too hard we want to just go lightly and see what happens and then don't forget
about the high areas so in that situation I'm just gonna pull by hand on
this handle and knock this down at the same time. But first we're just going to
slide hammer this and see what happens. so I do see it coming out of the little
bit
and I think that's good enough and now I'm just gonna pull by hand you know put
a little pressure on this and pound on those high spots. this is forcing this
out a little bit I don't want this part too far out that I have a little bump so
I'm just gonna lightly tap those high spots down so now the next step is to cut this
off grind it clean out to here then feel what you have knock any high spots down
and fill it. When I get that all set up to fill it, I'll be back. So now we're
just gonna we're just gonna spread a little filler and before we spread it we'll
just go one more time make sure I just have a little bit of a low spot left and
I'm pretty sure there's no high spots because I knock those down so we're just
gonna spread it and that's good right there. I'm gonna wait for this to harden
a little bit, cheese grade the excess off sand it down and you'll see the finished
product. Now before the bondo gets real hard I like to use a cheese grater just
to take off the excess so we're just gonna run that across there real nice
you always want to remember you want to cut
through the filler but not ride over the top
and I'm looking I have a little curve here I don't want it I want to get too
flat in one spot so it's gonna sort up here and then I come down here so I want
to have that curve and here's my little low spot and I'm letting it follow the
contour here and here I'm letting the end of this follow that contour
and that should be good I'm gonna let it harden a little bit
more then I'll be able to hit it with a block and lastly we're just going to use
a nice brand new sheet of 40 grit on a rubber block just a few times over this
and we'll be finished
and that's it. now I'm going to take this off and DA sand then give it a shot of
primer so you can see what the finished product looks like. and now I'll give it
a quick coat of primer so you can see what it looks like
after three coats of primer this is what the finished repair looks like. I hope
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button now I'm going to move the camera around so you get a few more views of
the finished repair