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Yep... a good handheld "body and fender re-shaping hammer" (Milwaukee Electric's name for theirs) can be fit with some great dies for straightening that 20 ga. (It also helps one's physical condition in the upper body.) The gas torch is also a necessity, because the tiggy can't heat shrink for beans. And the slapper and dolly will be great for the door areas and cab edges that are in behind braces and flanges. I see a lot of fun work there.
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IMO you could straighten most of what you have there with a heavy general purpose dolly (sometimes called track dolly) or even a piece of RR track 4 or 5” long with also a nearly flat faced body hammer. You’d have to rough it back to pretty close to its true form anyway before using a planishing hammer to smooth & blend anyway so I’d say thinking a Planishing hammer is the quick answer to your many dents is a fantasy dream at best. You will have to remove the inner panel & maybe even some of the frame on that door to get to those dents in the corner of the window. One thing for sure……… by the time you finish that cab you will have developed some real metal straightening skills . ~ John Buchtenkirch
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But that experience evidently came around long before I got a Ram's Head and read their booklet and tried the methods therein -- and then designed some "more helpful" dies ....
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I don't see anything there that can't be done with basic hand tools. Hammers, dollies, slapper, shrinking disc,or small torch, vixen file, and a little patience.
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Hello William,
I am waiting with anticipation for Photos of you getting stuck into it, the Roof on my model A was worse than that, I used a butane Torch from Bunnings for Shrinking and lots of Hammer and Dolly work, it didn't magically happen over night but it did happen over a few weeks.
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so i spend my time on the net trying to learn how to do the projects i acquire along the road.
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Here is a similar project from a few years back. It just takes time and patience. Good luck. Here is a link to some other info that might be of some help.
http://www.mantiquesresto.com/Projec...widebed01.html
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nice finish product there, were not going for quite that nice just less dents and damage.
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air planisher
When my son was working on his bucket he hung the HF planisher from a 2 X 6 with weight lifting irons to teter totter it from the gantry crane
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