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Posted by stryped on May 5, 2008, 8:20 am
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I finally got my garage door working in my shed. Now the next problem:
these doors were given to me and there is a panel or two that has
dents in them. I fooled with taping them from behind but to no avail.
Is there a way to get these dents out?
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Posted by glyford@gmail.com on May 5, 2008, 8:24 am
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> I finally got my garage door working in my shed. Now the next problem:
> these doors were given to me and there is a panel or two that has
> dents in them. I fooled with taping them from behind but to no avail.
> Is there a way to get these dents out?
It would help to know if they are steel or aluminum. Does a magnet
stick?
Maybe you could start googling autobody techniques. There's about as
many ways to remove dents as there are to make them...
--Glenn Lyford
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Posted by Lloyd E. Sponenburgh on May 5, 2008, 8:26 am
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> I finally got my garage door working in my shed. Now the next problem:
> these doors were given to me and there is a panel or two that has
> dents in them. I fooled with taping them from behind but to no avail.
> Is there a way to get these dents out?
>
Tape won't work. It just covers the dent. <G>
Instead, try tapping them from behind with mallet and a wooden backer-
block on the face side. Unless you disassemble the door panels, you'll
need a helper.
LLoyd
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Posted by Edward Hennessey on May 5, 2008, 11:39 am
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> I finally got my garage door working in my shed. Now the next
> problem:
> these doors were given to me and there is a panel or two that
> has
> dents in them. I fooled with taping them from behind but to no
> avail.
> Is there a way to get these dents out?
If your door is flat, Lloyd has spoken. If it is contoured, get
one
of those multifingered molding gauges, jigsaw profiles for each
side of the door and get a
helper to hold one while you pound the other.
Regards,
Edward Hennessey
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Posted by Jim Wilkins on May 5, 2008, 12:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options > I finally got my garage door working in my shed. Now the next problem:
> these doors were given to me and there is a panel or two that has
> dents in them. I fooled with taping them from behind but to no avail.
> Is there a way to get these dents out?
You need better tape, like the aluminum kind used to patch rust holes
in cars you want to get rid of quickly.
The metal in dents is usually stretched and can't be flattened anyway,
unless you can heat it red hot and hammer from either side.
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> these doors were given to me and there is a panel or two that has
> dents in them. I fooled with taping them from behind but to no avail.
> Is there a way to get these dents out?