News:



  • June 13, 2025, 04:09:15 AM

Login with username, password and session length

Author Topic: Dent Removal  (Read 9215 times)

Offline Howard Rush

  • 25 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 7964
Dent Removal
« on: November 13, 2024, 12:27:38 AM »
Once a month I get an injection in my sinister (left) eyeball for a retina anomaly.  I ordered the doctor to give me the needle.   Although it feels bigger, its 0.3 mm in diameter.  I used it to squirt water into a wing-leading-edge dent, then heated the area with a lukewarm MonoKote iron.  The dent came right out, and the hole is nigh invisible. 
The Jive Combat Team
Making combat and stunt great again

Offline Dave_Trible

  • 24 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 6705
Re: Dent Removal
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2024, 11:02:59 AM »
Botox?

Dave
AMA 20934
FAA Certificate FA3ATY4T94
 Investing in a Gaza resort if the billionaire doesn't take all my social security check

Offline Dan McEntee

  • 25 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 7490
Re: Dent Removal
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2024, 12:39:01 PM »
  there are a few suggestions for dent removal in the article in the April, 1992 issue of Flying Models for a smaller model called "The Professor" by Mike Spedaliere and several other wood working hints for better looking glue joints and parts fit up. I'll have to get that out and refresh my memory. I think one old school way was just lay a dame rag on the spot, let it soak the wood, and then apply the heat from the iron. I can't remember if the damp rag is left in p lace or not. The key in any method is to soak the wood and make it swell up.
  Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee
AMA 28784
EAA  1038824
AMA 480405 (American Motorcyclist Association)

Offline Howard Rush

  • 25 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 7964
Re: Dent Removal
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2024, 06:52:57 PM »
I guess I could have sanded off the finish to get at the bare wood, but I took the easy way out.
The Jive Combat Team
Making combat and stunt great again

Offline Dan McEntee

  • 25 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 7490
Re: Dent Removal
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2024, 09:10:26 PM »
I guess I could have sanded off the finish to get at the bare wood, but I took the easy way out.

   Well, you didn't give us that tiny detail that it was a finished model!! I'm glad it worked for you but if you had not acquired the needle, a steaming wet rag and the iron may work also.
   Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee
AMA 28784
EAA  1038824
AMA 480405 (American Motorcyclist Association)

Online Steve Thompson

  • 25 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Commander
  • *
  • Posts: 203
Re: Dent Removal
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2024, 02:16:18 AM »
On a gunstock with a dent, a damp rag on the dent will let water soak into the crushed fibers.  Heat from a large soldering iron (on top of the rag) will cause the water to turn to steam and expand.  A chunk of wet denim works really nice.  This would be for bare wood or oil finish.

Small dents and fingernail marks on bare balsa usually come out by just wetting the dent to re-expand the crushed fibers.

Injecting through the paint and using low Temp heat is a clever twist.


Offline Ken Culbertson

  • 25 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 7031
Re: Dent Removal
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2024, 01:08:48 PM »
 
Injecting through the paint and using low Temp heat is a clever twist.
What is the procedure for removing the bump from overdoing the removal?  LL~
AMA 15382
If it is not broke you are not trying hard enough.
USAF 1968-1974 TAC

Offline Tom Luciano

  • 25 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 935
Re: Dent Removal
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2024, 02:50:00 PM »
Once a month I get an injection in my sinister (left) eyeball for a retina anomaly.  I ordered the doctor to give me the needle.   Although it feels bigger, its 0.3 mm in diameter.  I used it to squirt water into a wing-leading-edge dent, then heated the area with a lukewarm MonoKote iron.  The dent came right out, and the hole is nigh invisible.

You're one of the lucky ones too. Every 6 weeks for me!
AMA 13001

Offline Steve Helmick

  • 24 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 10265
Re: Dent Removal
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2024, 08:03:37 PM »
Now I need to look for .3mm holes in Howard's wing LE. Let's see...that's .0118". Shouldn't be a problem with my 30X loupe...but which ImpAct?  LL~ Steve
"The United States has become a place where professional athletes and entertainers are mistaken for people of importance." - Robert Heinlein

In 1944 18-20 year old's stormed beaches, and parachuted behind enemy lines to almost certain death.  In 2015 18-20 year old's need safe zones so people don't hurt their feelings.

Offline wwwarbird

  • 2016 supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Admiral
  • *
  • Posts: 8084
  • Welcome to the Stunt Hanger.
Re: Dent Removal
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2024, 08:37:39 PM »
Now I need to look for .3mm holes in Howard's wing LE.

 Doesn't he cover them up with mouse poop?
Narrowly averting disaster since 1964! 

Wayne Willey
Albert Lea, MN U.S.A. IC C/L Aircraft Modeler, Ex AMA member

Tags: