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Once the chrome trim
and bumpers were removed, some fairly significant body
damage from an earlier collision was revealed at the
nose of the Alfa (figure A). It was determined
that some professional front-end bodywork was in order
prior to repainting the vehicle. Following is a summary
of the body-repair steps as shown in the episode
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The first step in
the repair is to pull the damaged area of the nose
back to its original shape as closely as possible.
Professional body tools are used to carefully pull
the dented area out (figure B), returning the
nose to something close to its original shape.
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A slide-hammer
with a claw attachment (figure C) is used to
further work the damaged area back out and into its
original shape. As the slide-hammer is used
progressively around the edge of the damaged area,
some old body filler from an earlier repair breaks
loose.
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A grinding wheel
(figure D) is used to remove some additional
filler and reveal the extent of the original damage.
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After grinding,
and some additional tapping with a hammer from
underneath the damaged area, metal studs are
spot-welded onto strategically placed points on the
damaged metal (figure E). The studs will help
in pulling the damaged area of the nose back to
square using the slide hammer. Once that process is
complete, the metal studs are ground off, and the
metal surface is ground smooth again.
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The next step is
to apply some spray-on adhesive to prepare the area
for application of some body filler (figure F).
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Once the adhesive
has been applied, a small amount of body filler is
applied to the metal (figure G) to finish out
the shaping process. With the metal-shaping that was
done prior to this point, only a small amount of
body filler will be necessary.
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Once the filler
has dried, it is shaped with hand-tools (figure H)
and then fine-sanded to bring it to its final shape.
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Once sanded down
to approximate the original shape of the nosepiece,
the repaired area is primed to prepare it for
painting, and given a final sanding (figure I
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Figure F
Figure G
Figure H
Figure I
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