removing dents by inflation

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Ok, so i've got a dent in my drivers door. bottom left hand corner so it's not budging easily.

I've had a basketball in the door today and removed most of the dint (it was pretty big).

Now i'm just left with a few smaller dents where the big basketball won't reach even when fully deflated. Anyone got any other ideas of what to put in my door? Maybe a mini basketball?

Bicycle tube wouldn't be strong enough and wouldn't push enough. It's gotta be pretty strong and be able to hold pressure. Some of the gaps i need to fit the inflatable down are about half a centimeter so i need something pretty small.
 
a bonnet stay?

im a mobile body repairer by trade and although i dont do dent removal i've used a bonnet stay to slowly push small shallow dents out many times. there small enough to fit in most small gaps and can be bent to suit the purpose.

Mark
 
hmmm good idea but i'm not sure... sounds like you need a lot of practice for that lol. I've also heard of dry ice and a hair dryer being used today. Anyone tried this before?
 
not really practise, just be gentle and do a small bit at a time. ive heard of all kinds of weird 'miracle cures' over the years, not actually seen or tried any though. there is a system that paintless dent removal people are using now where a blob of 'wax' is used to bond a dent puller to a dent (or multiple puller pins for larger dents). the dent is pulled and the wax is then cleaned from the panel leaving no trace. probably a bit extreme and expensive if you only have 1 small dent though.
 
Not a blob of wax, its hotmelt glue & that type of tool can be very good for pulling small dents in areas you can't get a normal dent tool behind to push the dent out. You glue the puller 'foot' to the dent then (hopefully) pull the dent before using a hot air gun to soften the glue to allow removal of the 'foot' & then clean the glue off.
Couple of problems, get the panel too hot & you damage the paint or if the paint isn't that good (esp if the panel has been resprayed & the prep wasn't what it should have been) you can pull a chunk of paint off.
 
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