hinchcliffe

So you just take a Baseball bat and roll it along the tire/wheel using the leverage of the handle pushing downward. Right? Better to do this when its warm I assume? Or at least heat the paint up with a hair dryer?

Any write-ups?

BC

Don't use a basball bat. Go to a metal suply store and get some cold rolled steel or aluminum pipe of varying diameters from 3"
to about 6" depending on how far you wish to go.

Scott Turnbull

Yes to all you said in your message.

Tons of write-ups. Just search the archives. Keys are proper leverage, not over heating the paint, not under heating the paint, and patience. Better to make a lot of little, softer passes, then trying to do it all at once.

Scott Turnbull

With much deserved props to Brendan, I have used both and prefer the bat/wooden dowel best. I had problem with the metal wanting to get lodged in one spot on the fender and spin (not enough friction metal to metal to keep it moving along the fender lip. But I may not have been using the metal rod the same way Brendan was.

BC

Great Point Scott.

The varying diameter is what I was trying to stress. The softness of the wood, though I have no experience with the slugger technique, would seem detrimental to smoothness.

Humble pie caveat: I did my larger rolling of the 78's fender as seen in the thread many months ago with manually rolling the car back and forth on the soft 16" tires, with NO PAINT on the car. Scary enough even as I knew I could bondo mistakes.

mark kibort

No dont use metal on metal ! the beauty of the baseball bat is two fold. one, its soft and takes some of the imperfections of the fender and softens the roll. two, it natually has large and small diameters you can use depending on your clearance.

1st roll the lip in ward, as it comes stock, sticking straight out. just to get it started. then, after its bending inward, use the bat, and keep the bat as vertical as possible, while someone drives the car forward and backward very very slowly. you basically make a rolling machine out of the car and bat.

again, as was said, be patient, do it slowely, and take small steps.

Mk

BC

As I said, metal worked very very well for me, with smooth, small changes in shape.

But I did not have to worry about paint.