They used to (and still do over seas i'm told) use Lead as a filler. You
pound the metal accordingly and then take a large inget of lead and flow it
over the entire area. Once it's hard, you take a file and file it until you
start planning the surrounding metal. That's another part of the "lost
art".....

-Craig
'85GL gone WESTY

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:36 PM, J Stewart <fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "craig cowan" <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 6:05:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: Body work question
>
> The body shop i worked at would try to avoid like the plague "reshaping"
> things. We always said "when in doubt, it's better replaced". If insurance
> is going to pay, that is THE way to do it.
>
>
>
> When i was 14 (that was a LONG time ago) I took an auto body repair class
> one summer through my county. The instructor was a retired auto body man.
> One day he took a dented fender, and using an assortment of special hammers
> and dollies straightened it out good as new and never used any filler. A
> lost art, I'm sure.   Jeff
>

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