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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Hey Eric, ya better hurry up with that vidio or I'm gonna be all done with the body work.
Love to look at your link but to much graphics, my confuser times out.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | Very nice. I'll be studying your metal repair/finishing FAQ very carefully this summer when I try ti fix on a banged-in roof.
Thanks,
Tim | | | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 886 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 886 | Nice job Eric! Thanks for sharing your wealth of Knowledge and experience. Hurry up with the videos and good luck
Dan | | | | | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 70 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 70 | nice post eric........ive used your advice and my fender is ready for primer.............thanks......butch | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 | Very nice write up. Most of the bodymen I know in todays shops are parts replacers. I do know a couple of guys like you who are what I consider real bodymen.I also learned to do body work by working the metal to use as little filler as possible. The older trucks are in my opinion much easier to work on than todays thin aloy metals. Try to pick & file a hood on a Kia and see how quickly you go right through the metal.I haven't done body work for over 20 years until this last year, and its amazing how quickly it all comes back. I am having a great time with my 57 and love this as a hoby. 
1957 Chevrolet 1/2-ton Stepside LB in the Gallery My Photobucket shots The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) | | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | Hey Eric, Man, that's some great info you're sharing there... thank you.
tell me, where does one purchase a slap hammer? Is that the same thing that Martin calls a "spoon"? | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 169 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 169 | Hey Eric, Man, that's some great info you're sharing there... thank you.
tell me, where does one purchase a slap hammer? Is that the same thing that Martin calls a "spoon"? Martin, doesnt really make a good slapper, I have one and use it for prying. My slappers came from www.covell.biz but Ron no longer makes them. If you are interested drop me a PM Ill send you the emaill address of another guy who makes some nice slappers, I think they are like 40 bucks. Denny, Well a full time job and also going back to school pretty much eat up my free time. I was hoping to have a few out by now but i dont, am shooting for this winter or next spring to have a metal finishing/dent repair video out. Thanks for the kind words guys...Eric | | |
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