How To Hammer And Dolly Sheet Metal

The hammer and dolly method is probably the easiest repair technique for dents but it requires that you have access to both sides of the panel being repaired.

How to hammer and dolly sheet metal.

Light taps work best for sheet metal work. Using our body hammers and hand dolly s we make it look brand new again. Hold the dolly tight to the panel maximizes the hit a loose hold allows the dolly to bounce reducing how much the metal stretches. How you strike the hammer and how you hold the dolly all affects the results of the work.

You have to adjust your mind to the concept that when you hammer on sheet metal with a steel hammer onto a steel dolly or anvil that you will expand or increase the surface area by thinning the metal. The metal worker finds the dent in the metal then places the dolly on the back side of the damaged area. You ll always want to begin by hammering from the center most or deepest point of the dent. You can also work off the dolly hitting the edge to shape the metal.

Classic car and truck rest. The idea was that if the hammered metal went up it was being stretched and if it went down it had shrunk. There are two techniques when using hammer and dolly hammer off dolly and hammer on dolly. Position the hammer dolly on the outside of the dent and your body hammer on the inside.

You also have to grasp the fact that you can reduce the area of sheet metal by thickening it. We take an old junk yard chevy tailgate and dismantle it. Mark simpson explains the process of using a hammer and dolly set to remove dents and straighten metal. The test was to hammer on dolly on one spot and measure what happened.

Using care and finesse he then begins to tap the metal from the other side using the hard steel dolly as a backing plate for the hammer blows.