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Unpopular opinion: I'll take a good old fashioned hammer and dolly over a stud welder puller for quarter panel work any day.
Had a nasty dent on a 2018 Civic's rear quarter, about the size of a dinner plate, and my boss insisted I use the stud welder kit first. After an hour of pulling, heating, and cursing, I was still chasing highs and lows, so I grabbed my hammer and a curved dolly and had it 90% straight in 20 minutes of careful taps. When did we decide more tech was always the right answer for metal that just needs to be coaxed back into shape?
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