Re: [VAC] Outer skin repair

[Lashway <rlashway@xxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to hear that.  Appears you need to take off inner skin and work on 
the outer in any case.  The following I received some time back from an 
experience  aluminum skin repair person.  It may be useful to you when to 
can get at outer skin.  Maybe  this process will give you something you 
can live with, hopefully your dent is up high and not readily seen.
You still maybe able to pull some of the dent out and then only deal with 
the "crimped area" using the below approach.  The only other option 
appears to be new skin panel, if you can find them.  I guess a further 
option also is to straighten out as much of the panel as possible and 
then rivet a patch over the unsightly part, maybe cover the whole panel 
if you could find aluminum to match.  Drilling out an replacing rivets is 
not very difficult.

<Since you have SKIN OFF inside, you should be able to remove the dents.
You'll need the following:
First, you need someone to give you a hand - this takes 2 people to 
perform!

Sand Bags - 2 each - 6 x 12 =} 1 ea. 12 x 12 inch Aluminum Sheet - .40 to
.062 - OR
2 Bags of No. 10/No. 12 Shot - at Firearms Re-load Center.

1 Strong Magnet

One Short - 2 x 6 (12" long)

Go inside Bubble with Magnet.  Place it in Center of Dent.  Have someone 
on
outside, find Center with a 16 Box Nail Head.  Once this is found - place 
a
Bag 'x' on it.  Have your helper place aluminum sheet over dent, place 
Sand
bag on Top and apply about 30ft pounds pressure.  Place YOUR Sand Bag over
Dent, put 2 x 6 on Center and hit with hammer.  A couple of hits should
remove Dent.

A Heating pad - taped on surface for 30 minutes BEFORE, should help this
operation.

It's NOT a good idea to use a torch.  You can burn the surface and turn a
Brown tint into it Permanently, that WILL show Big time - after 
Polishing!>