justin_o_guy2
Serious Thumper
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What happened?
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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If I had a dent I needed to fix on a painted part, I take a side cover off & try some hot glue on a bottom edge & see if it sticks well enough to pull a dent. If so, can you get it off w/o messing the paint up. If so, then glue a rod/dowel, not in the bottom of the dent, but about 1/3rd of the way between edge of the dent & the bottom. Gently pull on the rod & gently tap on the edge of the dent. A careful study of the dent will show a raised area around the dent, called an Eyebrow in body working circles. If the dent was slapped in with any real ferocity, it simply cant be fixed w/o heat ( Like a brazing tip on a torch) shrinking it. Metal stretches a lot easier than youd think.
I Do have a dent I should try the heat/cold on. Pretty "soft" dent, as dents go. It was the outside of my knee, catching the bike as it rolled off the stand, parked, in Neutral, pointed downhill in a parking lot. Im just not ready to worry about it.
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