Rejuvenating the Cool Vintage
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Color coordinated vintage set.
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Hypalon Limited Edition, Mk10 with 109 & D350.
It could use some blue hoses to complete the color coordination of the ensemble
. James
Eric Sedletzky
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Start with some of your stainless cooking bowls in the kitchen. They always seem to have dings.Ok, now if I tried that [a no talent metal worker] it would have more dings than a golf ball.
Should have seen my effort at welding.
Practice makes perfect.
Eric Sedletzky
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You can use many things as dollies to back up the ding being worked out. Generally the dings will always be on the convex surface of the cover. Iāve used my wooden work bench as a back up or ādollyā and a rounded punch on the inside over the high spot of the ding, then gently tapping the punch with a small hammer watching the ding disappear. It doesnāt take much.
They also make dense rubber dollies to avoid smashing and stretching the metal out between two hard surfaces such as a steel dolly and a steel hammer. Once that happens it becomes incredibly difficult to try and gather it back up.
You can also use pressure on a homemade tool such as a modified flat screwdriver and use it like they would doing paintless dent repair. Press the ding out with controlled pressure while the backside lays on a smooth wooden surface.
I was an auto body man for 15 years and also did custom work, so Iām not just blowing smoke.
Iāve also worked out dings on several of my 109 covers.
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