Removing dents from aluminium caravan?
Submitted: Tuesday, Mar 26, 2019 at 19:36
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Noelene L
Hi there
We have a number of dents in our van from a hail storm....any ideas of how to get rid of them?
Reply By: Shaker - Tuesday, Mar 26, 2019 at 22:30
Tuesday, Mar 26, 2019 at 22:30
Panel beating & shrinking aluminium is almost a forgotten art. Whereas you can heat steel to a ‘cherry red’ colour before shrinking it, aluminium shows no colour before it just melts, repairers used to use sawdust as a heat indicator, when it started to smoke was time to start beating it.
I think it would be cost prohibitive to repair.
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