[alfa] Re: dent removal

["Dean W. Cains" <dwc@xxxxxx>]

Hi Anne:

I did purchase one of those dent removal tools, a little over a year ago 
for ~$29.  I pulled a few dings out of my wife's Volvo 850 Turbo and Tim 
Lentz's GMC pickup, with great results.  Tim and I were really quite 
amazed.  The dents need to be large and shallow, rather than small and deep 
(relatively speaking), and I wouldn't dare use it on non-factory paint, 
either.  A bit of technique is involved, and some dents require multiple 
"pulls" around their periphery, but I think it would be tough to make a 
dent look worse by using the tool.  I bought it from www.dingking.com, but 
just checked the site, and it seems their focus has shifted towards 
training and franchising, rather than selling the tool to consumers.

Regards,

Dean
Lutz, FL
'74 & '87 Spider Veloce's

At 09:53 PM 1/9/2004, you wrote:

> From: Anne O <advection@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] Shipping and dent removal
>
> What is the collective wisdom of the best and least expensive method to
> ship an engine and trans (Alfa 4) ? The transmission I bought for the Honda
> came UPS in a cardboard box , but it was a very light unit.
>
> The Spider was innocently sleeping in the garage, since it is a frigid 20 F
> today, and was assulted by a box falling from the overhead shelf, leaving a
> ding in the fender. Have any of you tried one of those "as seen on TV" dent
> removal systems? Which one? Results?
>
> I haven't seen one of those chains of dent removal places around, but if I
> recall the discussion about them correctly they did not want to work on
> older cars.
>
> Ideas please. My previously pristine Spider is sporting a shiner and my SO
> who knocked down the box is in hiding.
>
> Anne O
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