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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Youll need a very light hammer & a very careful hand. Every dent creates an eyebrow around it, a high spot. If youll get a piece of wood, hard wood, like 1/2" X 3/4 & 6 or 8 long & shape the face to eliminate hard edges, You can pull with the crossbar from the bottom of that dent & using light quick taps work around that eyebrow. As you work that down, the low spot will come up & the eyebrow will walk to the center. IF & considering the size of the dent, I wouldnt be surprised to see the suction cup wont pull hard enough to do this, you can drill a hole in the low point & get a T hook from a body shop supply, or make one. Anyway, you have to pull on the dent while you gently spank the eyebrow. Light quik taps, LIGHT taps, Its better to take too long than make it worse,
Go to a body shop & look around at the employees, see if you see anyone you want to talk to. Go to shops till ya do, if ya see a bike,, well,, thats a good sign, Some of those guys just want to make $$$, some of them like to see people try to learn & will help.,theyre just like everyone else,,
You can even rent a tool that welds a brad onto the metal, & it comes with a slide hammer that grips the brad, so, no hole.. Now, does that glowing red metal have the potential to blow the tank? IDK!! So,, take precautions or just dont do that,, How to plug the hole if you drill? IDK,, so,, before you do that,, know how youll fill it, safely.
YOu can also ask the shop owner for a fender or any bent piece so you can practice with your hammering before you work on your tank,, Have a look at body hammers online, they look a lot like a silversmiths hammer, Leave your caveman at home, let the secretary swing the hammer,.its wrist stuff, forearm hardly moves at all.
Also, thats really a pretty hard crease, it may have stretched the metal some. Heat is the usual answer to shrinking metal, using a brazing tip, heating a dime sized area, it swells up, ya spank it a couple of times to flatten it, then quench with a wet rag.. BUT,, I shrunk a door on a car that had a fancy interior I wasnt able to remove. A punch with a pointed but not sharp end, like a pencil that isnt fresh out of the sharpener, but not time to sharpen again, either,, right when its writing a nice solid line,,It takes some work & technique, IF you need it, Ill explain it later, its a pot of typing,
Good Luck, man, Ill bet you wanted to puke when you saw that,,bummer, dude,,
YOu might just be ahead to take it to a shop & be done with it,.,.
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