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I've owned a restoration shop for 10 years. We have
always attempted to restore our panels as nice as we can, always using the least amount
of filler, usually from 1/8" to 1/16". Many times we use the electric Nailgun to
pull out dents that are doubled paneled.
In what way could your Friction System help us ...?
7.
How important is the grinder's
AMP rating and RPM speed for use with the Heat Shrinking Disc ... ?
8.
I have seen The Friction System demonstrated on an old
Model A type fender, but what about the newer sheetmetal panels on late model
cars? These metals are high strength and filled with more carbon than metals of
yesterday. We have tried to work on these newer panels using traditional methods
of shrinking, the torch and the Nailgun. We found it hard to control, being that
the panel becomes very flimsy, and most of the time we end up replacing them.
Sometimes even the heat developed from bondo hardening on the metal will
actually make the panel soft and unstable, making it very difficult to sand.
Can The Friction System help us work on these newer
panels.. ?
9.
I’m a sheet metal shaper and do
fabrication. I can make repair panels and shape fenders and hoods. I use the
English wheel, leather mallets and use sand bags. I use a TIG machine for
welding seams together.
How could your method help me ...?
10.
I notice that your Heat Shrinking Disc has serrations
embossed in it. Why are these so important to have? Wouldn't a flat disc create
the same amount of friction heat ... ?
6.
I've owned a restoration shop for 10 years. We have
always attempted to restore our panels as nice as we can, always using the least amount
of filler, usually from 1/8" to 1/16". Many times we use the electric Nailgun to
pull out dents that are doubled paneled.
In what way could your Friction System help us ...?
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It can only speed up your repair
times. Once you view the Training Videos a few
times and begin to apply our principles and techniques, your repair times will
speed up usually about 50% and sometimes faster. So if you had a dent which has
access to the backside, that took 3 hours to fix using bondo filler, it is
possible to repair that same dent in 45 minutes to 1 hour using primer as the
only filler.
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Sounds hard to believe.....but ....it
is factual. It's proven in the demonstrations shown in our Training Videos.
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When using a Nailgun and
the Friction System together, you will need a thin skim coat of
filler, because you cannot get access to the backside of the panel to do
the proper procedure of hammer and dolly.
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The damaged panels
that normally would be cut off and
thrown away are now savable. Many medium to lightly damaged hoods, trunks and
roofs are now repairable. Even the unfixable, lightly damaged aluminum hood of
a Mercedes can be repaired and not replaced. These hoods range in price, up to
$2500.00 and more. Some could be fixed in less than one hour!
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Begin to cut down your repair
hours.....Learn our techniques that give you fast and accurate results.
| This is very important.
Using a heavy duty body grinder that is rated at
15 AMP with 5,000 to 6,000 is a must! |
| By not having the correct rating, the RPMs cannot be
maintained. If it doesn't spin fast enough, the proper amount friction will
not occur, which will not produce enough heat. Without enough the heat, the
correct amount of shrinkage cannot occur. |
| As an example, when using a small 10 AMP grinder at
5,000 RPM on a thicker old style panel, it will bog and slow down, not
allowing the proper heat to cause the shrinkage where it is needed. |
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By using our
techniques, and the use of the properties of physics as related to heat and
vibration, The Friction System will work on
any panel that is considered sheet metal. |
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It will work on
22 gauge sheetmetal up to 16 gauge, which is 1/16" thick. It has worked on a
Honda hood or a Model A fender, it doesn't matter. The ability to control
applied heat is one of the key factors. Our Heat Shrinking Disc can apply a
little bit of heat or a lot of heat, and apply it where it needs to go. By
having this type of control of the heat we gain control over the movement of
the metal. Moving the metal up or down in an accurate and controlled
manner is another key factor. |
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A flimsy soft
panel can become a stable and rigid one using our methods. The only
difference between the Model A fender and Honda hood is the metal on the Honda
heats up a lot quicker, because it is a lot thinner. So a very careful
and light touch will always be needed. Sometimes it will be like
floating the Disc across the panel without any pressure.
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after you have shaped out your panel with the English wheel or whatever
shaping machine you use. The English wheel
is a great method for shaping. It puts stretches in the sheetmetal to develop
curved shapes. As you know you end up with a lot of minor high and low areas
called tracking marks, caused by the
two wheels pressing together. Our method can smooth and level out these
more quickly and easily than any other method. We are now heating and shrinking only the
stretched high areas which are the tracking marks. As an example;
if you took a 15" X 15" wheeled area, it's possible to smooth this out in about 10 minutes.
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producing repair panels, usually many hours are used for the finish work, before and after the
installation. These labor hours will be
cut down dramatically.
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Shrinking Disc will always out-perform a; flat disc, a 50 grit disc, the torch,
the shrinking tip of the Nailgun, the shrinking hammers and the shrinking
dollies hands down.
These all will work, but they are not the most efficient or most accurate methods
to heat metal. We have used all of these methods in the past, that
is why we developed new ones and refined some old techniques. By doing this,
it has given us the desired results we wanted. We are fixing and solving the
problems, not creating new ones as these above methods can do. For this reason
our methods produce results faster.
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The serrations do serve a very important purpose. They
generate faster heat and more heat than any flat disc ever could. In
fact, in our Training Videos we instruct you not to use the flat area of the
Disc, it doesn't do anything. The serration
section is the working surface of our Heat Shrinking Disc.
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properties of physics that apply to the heated, damaged metal molecules. The
use of our Heat Shrinking Disc will allow the accurate movement of the damaged
molecules, so they can start to reposition. The repetitive repositioning
causes them to line backup into their original state, thus forming the
original contour.
This is why a
bare-metal-finished
result can be accomplished.
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The Friction System is
a proven method with refined techniques and exact procedures that must be
followed. It is not just one tool, as we originally thought, it is a
complete method.
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| Keeping the section of the serrations
at the proper angle for the correct contact with the panel is very
important
This is where... the science takes over and results
begin to happen!
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