i actually have had better luck with dry ice than popsident. I have a popsident and Ive never really had any luck with it. What works best is on a hot day, use dry ice. never had to on the tib but we used it on my brothers mr2 and supra and it worked great

 

Dry ice works great, it's common sence.

Dry ice is VERY cold. You warm up the dent, allowing the metal to 'soften' in it's current dented state, then you put a small piece of dry ice in the center of the dent and rub it around. This causes the metal to contract and the dent pops right out.

 

interesting. hopefully i wont have to use this anytime soon lol

whats this got to do with GP? i think OT is more suiting

mmmmooooooved.

 

It makes perfect sense. When you get a dent, you are actually stretching the metal. By heating it up so that it gets closer to it's elastic point and then applying the supercold that is dry ice, you are actually going to shrink the metal and the dent will pop out.

Trivia fact: Dry Ice, which is Frozen Carbon Dioxide does not melt. It sublimates from solid to gas, bypassing the liquid state.

 

I couldn't ever get it to work. check some of my first posts on the site. Everyone said it wouldn't work. I tried, it didn't work.

 

My friends husband does the bodywork for all the vehicles on this base. Thats how he does it ALL the time. I never knew till he told me bout it.

 

VERY good point. Lots of folks don't know that. That's why you need good ventilation if you are messing with Dry Ice, you can easily get too much CO2 around you and die.

This is one of the major methods for folks to do paintless dent repair after hailstorms.

Moving to Showroom...

 

Dry ice works well for small dents. I couldn't get it to work on bigger dents though. I used one of those TV Pop-a-dent things, and it worked. It's just a hot glue gun with a contraption that will pull the stick. (put hot glue on stick, let it cool to paint, pull it with contraption). Gets big dents out, then if there are small dents, use dry ice.

IF YOU USE DRY ICE, WEAR GLOVES!!! IT WILL BURN YOU

 

Definately.

I wouldn't recommend working with Dry Ice unless you have had some instruction or have watched some instructional videos.