Deep dent from a Harley Sportster

[Dino]

Well done!!! Love the paint job too!!

I thought the same thing Chopper... worst spot it could have happened!!??

I'm actually brainstormin a way to make a sort of spot tool and die to clamp it back into shape. I could sample the proper curve from the other side in fiberglass, then cut a tool and die set, then try clamping it.

It'll get me close, and it won't distress the metal as much as hammer and dolly work. Then I can just leave it until I get time to do the real prep and paint.


Cars... Body work... the smell of bondo AKA polyester resin.
Side note ...
My Dad had a bodyshop when I was a kid. I remember a wall of tools and LOTS of hammers. I asked what they were for many times over. It's funny, but sometimes I do stuff and wonder how the hec I knew how to do that!!! Guess some stuff is just absorbed.

This is me, sanding on some car my Dad was working on, in 1961. I was 1 year 9 ,os old.



My dads is 93, not so much in the here and now, but alive and vital enough. I'm going to visit him and my Mom in the Adirondacks next month.

[IndianaVX]

dino,
cool pic, but i have to wonder, were you SUPPOSED to be sanding on that??? lol
again, cool pic.

[Dino]

Heh he... yeah... it was getting painted.

[Chopper]

Forget all that...too much work. Pull it, heat it, hammer it, shrink it, do it right. Probably what your pop would tell you anyhow. Me, I'd just hang new metal. Enjoy parts availability while it exists.

[IndianaVX]

IF,....i say, IF you did replace the panel, i would hold on to it, or offer it up to someone on here......again, keeping parts availability in mind, they wont ALWAYS be available, and a fender, with a small harley dent might look really good to someone who REALLY smashed theirs up.....

im just sayin.......

[Dino]

I hear that!