REMOVING DENTS FROM MUDGUARDS OF CARS.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 88, 4 December 1931, Page 7

REMOVING DENTS FROM MUDGUARDS OF CARS.

It is quite within the capacity of the owner to remove the small dents and bends which mulguards receive. Extensive crumpling and tearing is, of course, a matter for the expert panel beater's skill and equipment; but with the present popularity of amateur car painting owners often spoil quite a good job by negleeting to spend an hour in prelimnary straightening up. A hammer and a flatiron are the tools, small dents being 1/iocked out with the hammer while the guard is backed up with the iron. Where the turned-over portion at the side of the guard is bulged out the most convenient tool is an adjustable spanner used as a gripping lever. When the guard appears to be in good condition again all paint loosened in the process should be picked out and the guard then rubbed down with coarse sandpaper used on a flat block. This wili show up any high spots which need' further attention. Then; remove all rust with emery paper, and fill up the cracks and holes with a suitable stopping, which any paint shop can supply. This is used lilje putty, and a liptle practice will en.able you to smoqth it off neatly with a knife to very little higher than the correct level. When it is set thoroughly hard it must be rubbed down level with coarse sandpaper on a block. The whole guard should then

be given a filling coat of the stopping material much thinned down and applied with a brush. This coat, when rubbed down smooth, gives a splendid foundation for >the colour. it is well worth whole going lo this extra trouble, for the bright surface of new paint makes old blemishes which have not been filled up particularly noticeable.