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Fritz The Cat
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« Reply #40 on: April 02, 2014, 04:12:05 PM »
Just a crazy thought but could you seal it good and hit it with a blast of compressed air? Maybe that would pop it back out.
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« Reply #41 on: April 03, 2014, 08:32:52 AM »
That is actually the worse thing to do to a motorcycle gas tank.
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seal it good and hit it with a blast of compressed air? Maybe that would pop it back out.
It will open up like an oyster.

Be totally unusable.

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« Reply #42 on: April 03, 2014, 10:48:34 AM »
My IS tank was badly dented in the deer incident.  I had a body shop fix it.  They did a great job, that was 13 years ago and you still can't tell it was ever damaged.  They even matched "Honda black" which has a bit of red in it.  I never would have known.  Cost me $500 but it was worth it.  IS tanks at that time were priced by Honda around $1800 and unobtainable.  I can provide the name of the body shop if you want to ship it to them.  In Denver.
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« Reply #43 on: April 03, 2014, 04:59:07 PM »
Thankfully I was able to pull the dent with an upgraded version of Daniel's Hot glue and a stick method.  I did the carriage bolt and JB Weld with a slide hammer trick.  Skim coated the dent with some glazing putty and sanded it to match.  Once its repainted you'll never find it.
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« Reply #44 on: April 03, 2014, 07:37:21 PM »
Good job.   cooldude
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« Reply #45 on: April 04, 2014, 05:06:55 PM »
My 2cnts,    Fill it with solder or lead.  a good weldor could do it.   Thats the way it was done b4 bondo was invented
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« Reply #46 on: April 04, 2014, 06:51:20 PM »
Quote from: crow on April 04, 2014, 05:06:55 PM
My 2cnts,    Fill it with solder or lead.  a good weldor could do it.   Thats the way it was done b4 bondo was invented

While you could certainly do that,, it is not hard to do and it leaves a nice workable surface,,, there are about a hundred good reasons why it is not done anymore.
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