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Help me locate this plastic scraper / tool.

My Maintenance Schedule has stripped a gear...

SnoKing

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I have a couple dents in the side of my bed. Looking at youtube I came across a dent removal process, so I ordered this kit from Amazon.

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The other day I got the larger one down to the size of the smaller one before running out of hot glue. Amazon will deliver more glue today and I will be back at it.

This is before I started.

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I was looking at the kits some time ago to remove a couple door dings that jumped onto the doors of our vehicles from the WallyWurld parking lot. Curious as to how you like the kit. Does it smooth the dent completely after working it out? Does it use a lot of glue in the process? Any glue residue or paint issues remaining? How about some follow-up pics and report once you get the fresh glue supply in. This has piqued my interest in purchasing one of those kits.
 
It takes a lot of patience and multiple pulls. When I start on the first ding it was cool out. I moved truck into the sun and let the panel warm up. It was moving faster, then I ran out of glue and could not find more sticks in the man cave or loft. The glue comes off with a little work and does not seem to damage the paint. I tried it on one of the hail dents in the BakFlip cover and it pulled the paint off a little. It is hard to get pictures with the light reflecting for the truck.

I will follow up with more post.
 
I spent another 1.5 hours working on two main and one slight dent. It was cold out again today. I would stay that I removed about 90 percent of the dents. You have to now look for them to find them. I will work a little more one them when it is warmer and I can let the sun shine on the panels warming them. It is a slow process, but I am retired, so time on such a project does not mean much. SnoKing
 
I had posted previously you can take dry ice and pop out minor dents. My previous first gen 93 had been in a hail storm and I removed most of the dents with dry ice on a hot day.

Just another tool.

Cheers, Ron
 
Actually looks pretty good in that pic, better then the headlight bulb swap/headlamp swap pictures of before and after, those all are not for me they all look pretty bad the before and afters.

Some fixes just have to go by the recommendation, but sounds like this works.
 
Your pic looks good of your repair.

Compared to before and after when folks post headlight pics of any sort.
 
This came in a email, maybe pretty good. Eastwood is not known for selling junk

https://newsletter.eastwood.com/t/l...1KePJsX2tfVpZmIXs81F78xdTsR1uSmvAnq5X3OtqO2m0
Thanks Dave! Now you made me go and spend money...:rolleyes:;):p
It's been a VERY long time since I purchased anything from Eastwood. Since I have a need and this kit looks solid, as most Eastwood products are of great quality, I broke down and took advantage of the sale. Still a lot cheaper than having a shop do it.
 
Thanks Dave! Now you made me go and spend money...:rolleyes:;):p
It's been a VERY long time since I purchased anything from Eastwood. Since I have a need and this kit looks solid, as most Eastwood products are of great quality, I broke down and took advantage of the sale. Still a lot cheaper than having a shop do it.

Your very welcome :D. I should go to Washington, I love spending other's money :D. All kidding aside I hope it does what you want. If you get a chance let us know how it works out.
 
Your very welcome :D. I should go to Washington, I love spending other's money :D. All kidding aside I hope it does what you want. If you get a chance let us know how it works out.
SnoKing and Stoney Ridge Farmer made it sound and look so easy. I'll try to take some before and after pictures. Not sure how they'll turn out with the Jeep Patriot's dark Blackberry paint. I also ordered the stripe placard to help determine the smoothness through the stripe's reflection in the paint. This will surely beat removing the door panels and beating on the dents with tiny hammers and dollies. After the dent fixes the next step is getting an airbrush setup to touch up some of the tiny dings in the paint. Maybe I'll start with the Dr. Color Chip method first as it would be less costly than an airbrush setup, with less cleanup needed afterward.
 
SnoKing and Stoney Ridge Farmer made it sound and look so easy. I'll try to take some before and after pictures. Not sure how they'll turn out with the Jeep Patriot's dark Blackberry paint. I also ordered the stripe placard to help determine the smoothness through the stripe's reflection in the paint. This will surely beat removing the door panels and beating on the dents with tiny hammers and dollies. After the dent fixes the next step is getting an airbrush setup to touch up some of the tiny dings in the paint. Maybe I'll start with the Dr. Color Chip method first as it would be less costly than an airbrush setup, with less cleanup needed afterward.

I have had this air brush for about 20 years and still going
https://usaairbrushsupply.com/products/150-5-pro-set
 
I have not tried this and really never thought of it over all these years but I watched a guy apply wax around his chips as close as he could safely get then air brush the chip. After everything was dry he simply wiped the wax off and any over spray came with it.
 
Bruce, there is also this. I have one but haven't used it yet and may be limited since you need downward flow.
Or it's fine artist brushes and the blob remover to level the paint.
Amazon product ASIN B004YZXV8U
I looked at those many years ago. In all the write-ups I saw they said it worked well on horizontal surfaces, but vertical surfaces were a challenge because it was hard to build up layers due to gravity pulling the droplet down. The very patient would get the super fine point and fill/build with many tiny applications, then delicately sand it flush. Metallic type paints were very challenging. So I went back to OEM touchup paint applied with the butt of paper matchsticks and an old credit card. A little polishing compound once cured and coat of wax a couple weeks later.

EDIT: One of the main complaints when using the smaller tips is they dried (clogged) significantly faster than the larger ones so it was suggested to only use them on very small chips.
 
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