Paintless Dent Repair
08-17-07, 03:09 PM
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Paintless Dent Repair
Have anyone tried one of those places that do paintless dent repairs to try and ge a top tube ding out ?? Can it even be done?
08-17-07, 04:26 PM
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I know several of those guys. I'll try to ask this next week at work. To get to it they would have to drill a hole somewhere in the frame to get the tools into the tube to pop it. May not be worth the effort...but I'll ask for ya. I agree the steel tubing is probably too hard for it to work.
08-22-07, 01:09 PM
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gwhunter,
BTW I did talk to a couple of dent repair guys. None of them thought it would be possible to fix a dent in a bike frame. They did mention that if you really want to remove the dent to take it to a body shop and have them bondo and then re-paint it...
Hope that helps.
BTW I did talk to a couple of dent repair guys. None of them thought it would be possible to fix a dent in a bike frame. They did mention that if you really want to remove the dent to take it to a body shop and have them bondo and then re-paint it...
Hope that helps.
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Ive heard it could be done with no problem, its done with a block of wood that has a hole the same diameter as the tops tube drilled through it, then the block is cut in half, that leaves you with two blocks of wood with a half circle in each, then they place some kind of "material" inside the half circles as a buffer? (so they dont scratch the paint?) they take the two halves and place them on the tube with a clamp, then they slowly turn the frame around over the dent, tighten the clamp and repeat, till the dent is gone, or at least almost gone, I might be a little off on the description, but thats basically it 
08-22-07, 04:00 PM
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sounds reasonable
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