Remove small dents from stainless steel fridge
larkim
stainless steel fridge that has acquired a few small dents from
children and adults alike. The kind of dent you'd get in a car door
if another car door bumped into it in a car park.
It may not be worth trying anything at all and just living with it,
but if there are any tried and tested techniques I'd be glad to hear
of them.
(I don't own an angle grinder, and I'm all out of car body filler...)
TIA!
Matt
Jim K
can you get to the rear of the panel?
Jim K
Jim K
larkim
>
> is the brand relevant?
>
> can you get to the rear of the panel?
>
> Jim K
for us), but I believe it is a "quality" brand and the guage of the SS
might therefore be moderately relevant.
Can I get to the rear - not obviously, no.
Matt
Jim K
> On Sep 22, 1:04 pm, Jim K <jk989...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > is the brand relevant?
>
> > can you get to the rear of the panel?
>
> > Jim K
>
> Brand? Not sure. We have it because it is an odd size (which works
> for us), but I believe it is a "quality" brand and the guage of the SS
> might therefore be moderately relevant.
> Can I get to the rear - not obviously, no.
Jim K
Paul - xxx
Hmm, options limited then .. ;)
Glazing suckers/dent pullers maybe?
I guess a lot depends on the 'sharpness' of the dents, if they're
creased then it's unlikely you'll do anything good to them. If they're
just depressions it may be possible to 'suck' them out, or at least get
them nearer to flat.
Getting to the underside would give a far better choice of method and
chance of successful recovery. ;)
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Gazz
> may be possible to 'suck' them out,
hose pipe for that job?
Paul - xxx
Nah, ask your wife nicely ..
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Baz
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finish.
Baz
larkim
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> it has dents so it isn't a luxuriously thick gauge then...
>
point though!
> oh well - fridge magnets?
>
SWMBO would be apoplectic!
Matt
Jim K
scratchy iron)
buy some Innocent smoothies for the kids (5 a day etc) the promo packs
have "plasnetic" letters in....
or why not sex the dents up with some stick on "james bond" bullet
hole decals?
Jim K
larkim
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> I would say leave it alone, you don;t stand a chance of getting a good
> finish.
>
> Baz
Matt
Chris Bartram
> Any tips on how to achieve the above? Have a Fisher& Paykel brushed
> children and adults alike. The kind of dent you'd get in a car door
> if another car door bumped into it in a car park.
>
> It may not be worth trying anything at all and just living with it,
> but if there are any tried and tested techniques I'd be glad to hear
> of them.
>
> (I don't own an angle grinder, and I'm all out of car body filler...)
>
> TIA!
>
> Matt
cars:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/501379/remove_car_dent_with_airduster/
or google for 'dent removal freezer spray'.
John Rumm
> Any tips on how to achieve the above? Have a Fisher& Paykel brushed
> stainless steel fridge that has acquired a few small dents from
> children and adults alike. The kind of dent you'd get in a car door
> if another car door bumped into it in a car park.
>
> It may not be worth trying anything at all and just living with it,
> but if there are any tried and tested techniques I'd be glad to hear
> of them.
>
> (I don't own an angle grinder, and I'm all out of car body filler...)
Without access to the rear of the panel, and decent panel beating skills
and tools, you are probably stuffed, since the alternative car style
repair of filling, sanding, and refinishing does not sound like its
going to be an option either!
Dent pullers etc only really work on larger sized dents, and preferably
those without much creasing or stretching of the metal.
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NT
Dent pulling is a skilled job. And even with the skills you're not
going to get a properly flat finish. You could take it to a panel
beater, but I doubt the result would look much better without filler.
Perhaps you could stick fridge magnets over the damage.
NT
fred
<13cacc9b-8e1c-445d...@a7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
larkim <matthew...@gmail.com> writes
>>
>> I would say leave it alone, you don;t stand a chance of getting a good
>> finish.
>
>
You need to get at the back of a panel to apply regular panel beating
techniques (ie completely strip & remove insulation).
Dressing out the ding would ruin the brushed effect on the outer so
expect to have the panel completely refinished, theeeeeen, refinish all
other panels to make them match the repaired one ;-).
Is there any truth in the rumour that you thought this would be the case
and are posting here to placate your other half?
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fred
FIVE TV's superbright logo - not the DOG's, it's bollocks
polygonum
IMHO take it to a bodyshop, get it filled (yes, car body filler),
refinished with the true and proper finish for white goods - paint. (Mind
the bodyshop should be able to do a pretty good match to an extremely wide
range of colours if white isn't desired.) Or live with it, dents and all.
--
Rod
Andy Burns
> Any tips on how to achieve the above? Have a Fisher& Paykel brushed
> children and adults alike. The kind of dent you'd get in a car door
> if another car door bumped into it in a car park.
induction heating tool, and are intereted in using the same to repair
your fridge?
http://youtu.be/zSz87hChfe8
Thomas Prufer
wrote:
>Any tips on how to achieve the above? Have a Fisher & Paykel brushed
>stainless steel fridge that has acquired a few small dents from
>children and adults alike. The kind of dent you'd get in a car door
>if another car door bumped into it in a car park.
>
>It may not be worth trying anything at all and just living with it,
>but if there are any tried and tested techniques I'd be glad to hear
>of them.
You *might* have had a faint chance of an invisible repair on large dents, but
small? Naah. On brushed stainless, the quickest and probably cheapest option is
to buy a sheet of brushed stainless, possibly with four edges appropriately
bent, and sticking it on (silicone, double sided tape, whatever).
Thomas Prufer
geoff
<2b998ae0-0d55-4bc6...@cd4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, Jim
K <jk98...@gmail.com> writes
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geoff
Dave Liquorice
>> Have a Fisher& Paykel brushed stainless steel fridge that has
acquired
>> a few small dents from children and adults alike.
>
> See if any of the companies that do car dent removal use a magnetic
> induction heating tool,
Magnetic induction, stainless steel, hum...
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Cheers
Dave.
Dean Heighington
> You don't know how hard my kids slammed their toys into it :-) Fair
> point though!
> SWMBO would be apoplectic!
>
> Matt
duty when the damage was done? I come home every day to find yet another
example of child vandalism in our house. Asking my missus what she was
doing at the time and why she didn't tell one of three to stop 'before
something gets damaged' usually ends up with us having dinner in silence :)
I have now decided not to buy anything nice until they have all emigrated
(including the wife, dog, budgie, goldfish AND the rescued squirrel!)
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Andy Burns
And tubas, apparently.
Geoff Pearson
"larkim" <matthew...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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DentMaster? They get impossible dents out of cars.
polygonum
And you can happily induce currents in aluminum. Came across this being
used as a brake on huge wide-format digital photographic printers. Very
neat.
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Rod
Andy Burns
> And you can happily induce currents in aluminum. Came across this being
> used as a brake on huge wide-format digital photographic printers. Very
> neat.
Fun with magnets in thick walled copper tube
polygonum
Totally visually counter-intuitive.
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Rod
Grimly Curmudgeon
<ne...@delete-me.piglet-net.net> wrote:
>Some have had good results with freezer spray (or inverted airduster) on
>cars:
>
>http://www.metacafe.com/watch/501379/remove_car_dent_with_airduster/
larkim
> Is there any truth in the rumour that you thought this would be the case
> and are posting here to placate your other half?
Matt