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Originally Posted by austinhunt
Thanks! Any suggestions to favorite threads are appreciated also.
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Welcome to the forum and to the craft.
Have you looked carefully thru the index?
http://allmetalshaping.com/index.php
I would suggest:
Basic Questions and Answers, and
Basic Tools as starting points. Any thread with a Sticky bears extra attention as well.
This thread:
http://allmetalshaping.com/showthread.php?t=1706 proves you don't need a lot of sophisticated tools to get started.
The link below was posted recently in the above thread and is noted for its clarity in getting a concept across. I might add that watching the other videos by the same youtube poster is worthwhile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=tQCS3KCpNJY
You have a most excellent tool already in David's video. His "stump" also proves you don't need as large a chunk of tree as many think.
As far as removing fender dents goes, an oversimplification of collision repair, but a basic rule of thumb is: "Last in, first out". That often but not always, means start on the outer edges and work your way into the initial strike area.
A few clicks away and you can start reading some basics on page 30 (and following) in this old manual, great illustrations of on-dolly work vs. off-dolly, and of sequencing your actions:
http://www.hnsa.org/doc/pdf/metal-body-repair.pdf
If you want to spend a couple dollars, get Frank Sargent's metal bumping book, there's a reason it's been in print since 1953:
http://www.amazon.com/Bumping-Instru...+metal+bumping
Hope this helps,
Mark