Dent Removal
- Thread starter Tango Sucka
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Yeah, you can blow that one out easily with compressed air through the petcock hole. Be extremely careful when you do it, its way too easy to blow the tank's bottom out of shape, but it will take out those large push dents in a heartbeat. Just very short little bursts of air out of your blow gun. Needless to say, empty the tank first. The gas cap will give a good enough seal on the top, just hold your finger over the vent line. I can not over emphasize, just little teeney bursts of air, a half second at a blip, and when it pops quit. That said, I've taken out several of those kinds dents - ones without deep creases - using air.
There is quite a definitive crease line in that dent - I doubt you'd get that out with compressed air......without risking turning your tank into a puffer fish 
You could try heating and cooling (propane and ice), but if you want the dent GONE without filler, you'll need to get some kind of dolly behind it (cut a piece out the bottom, panel beat the area and re-weld the bottom in).
You could try heating and cooling (propane and ice), but if you want the dent GONE without filler, you'll need to get some kind of dolly behind it (cut a piece out the bottom, panel beat the area and re-weld the bottom in).
Tango Sucka
Without proof, your just an opinion!
Thanks guys. There is not a definite crease (I'll get a better photo) so maybe the air would work. I am not a fabricator so cutting and welding is out. I would like to try pounding in the sides of this tank and shaping them up with filler in the future.
RoadRash
Coast to Coast
Just went through this with my SECA tank I got. It took a combination of several attempts with a heat gun and freezing propellant from cans of compressed air, and a home made fashioned dolly through the filler hole. I'd say that all got about 80% of it out. Still had to run filler, cause mine was creased.
