Ding King

[Guest]

Following the advice of a fellow member I got a Ding King to remove a dent created by the PO by dropping the bike in his garage.

[Guest]

Tacking the pull out with a glue gun and applying the brace.

[Guest]

For the smaller dents after the main dent has been pulled out.

[Guest]

No more dents but in need of a new tank emblem. Not bad for $23 + $7 to replace the POS glue gun that came with the kit that did not work8-)

[Can_O_Tuna]

I always wondered if those things worked....not bad O

[Boondocks]

Nice work.:-)

[SqDancerLynn1]

I have one of those emblems pretty good condition $5 shipped to you

[cfcubed]

"Not bad for $23 + $7 to replace the POS glue gun that came with the kit that did not work"

This summer a freak windstorm caused a *huge* branch to come down on my GS450L... Made a dent right on the right "corner" of the tank (just above the gold stripe). Even tho it was sort of on a corner & had slight creasing, multiple uses of a Dent King (10-15 pulls?) made the dent a lot less noticable. Certianly not gone, but prob reduced the depth & diameter of the dent by at least half. Took off a bit of the stripe & used a dab of paint to fix that.

POS glue gun - Yep, right when I plugged mine in it made a big spark inside & was toast.... I opened it up, resoldered the wires & used heat-shrink tubing & then it worked fine. Got the DK set for like $15 delivered from some amazon_seller.

Great that it worked so well for you...

[mark]

Great post. I've got a few dents in my gas tank I would love to practice on. What kind of glue did you use? I've got to try that.

[Guest]

Mark, the kit came with three glue sticks. When cool they were similar to a hardened rubber. I don't think I'd use the glue sticks that came with the new glue gun, they seemed too hard to work?

[J_C]

Cool! Nice work!

[Jagir]

I've been working on this one on the GSaSAWKI. Started by gently pushing it out from the inside using a set of those goofy stock handlebars that have a pretty good angle on them.

[Jagir]

not the best picture of the 1st stage of the repair, but the dent is almost half out. I am wondering if anyone has suggestions about the cracks in the paint job.

Something I can spray on there to keep it from getting worse? Obviously would like to keep the original paint job, don't care if it looks 100%

[Guest]

My old thread back from the dead.

[salty_monk]

You may be able to clearcoat over the top I guess....