Thread: Shrink this panel

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Hey Guys any of you body and fender geru's out there. That can tell me how
to shrink this oil can type dent out of my rear pass side quarter panel. I going to try and attach the photo's here for it. You can see where I have sprayed a guide coat on it. And blocked sanded it to show you the size of this.
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I use my stud gun, has a shrinking tip attachment. Takes a bit of practice to not get too much heat, then a bunch of pingin' and dingin' along the edges.... On some minor oil canning, I've also been able to firm it up with a shrinking hammer and dollie....and sometimes a body hammer and a shrinking dollie.... Hard to describe the correct procedure in words....best if you had someone local to show you....

If you have an acetylne torch with your smallest heat a small dot in the middle of the desired area(make sure nothing behind will burn) it will stick out like a pimple GENTLY hammer it down then cool it with water this will shrink the area, be careful this can easily be overdone. Good luck

Heat Shrinking disk, about $50 on the net. Lots of photos and "how to" video on the net.

They only bring the high spots down, not the low spots up. So you need to start on the edge first (showing as creases in your photo) and work to the inside. Hopefully you have access to the back of the panel for dolly work. They also work best on clean metal "no paint", because of friction of the stainless steel against the body panel.

I'm not a pro metal man, but even I just used this system on my son's door panel and it works!

You tube has several video's on heat shrinking.