Hello everyone! This is Mike Toledo. I'm going to be demonstrating basic PDR tutorial on lines. Obviously, that's pretty much all I do anyway. Well, I thought I would just throw that in there. Anyways. So what I'm going to do is push out this dent without making any high spots or knocking down, obviously this is your alternate goal is to push out the dent without having to knock down at all. Alright.
So if you push in the right areas with the right tool, with the right pressure; you'll do very well. So I actually push out the dents with this type of tool right here. Okay. My whole goal is to keep that dent as round and straight as possible, that's my number one goal. And what I mean by that is that I want to keep my dent clean; I don't want any bumps or high spots or you know lap sided dent, as you'll see, I'll keep this dent clean and I'll press very accurately.
Now start from the top and I'll kind of gradually go into the middle but that black line, you see how it splits and then you got this the owl's eye, the whiteness. Well, I want to stay within the black line; I don't want to go outside. I just kind of randomly shape the dent, okay, so it's a little off on the left or little low on the left then I'm going to press on my left side. If it's lower on the right side, that's where I'm going to press.
But you will see as I press, the dent is very slowly starting to take a shape and it's actually getting smaller. Now I want to keep that line; I want to always compare the line I'm working on to the line I see on the right or on the left, that's my guidelines, that's why I have multiple lines and so many from left to right. It really gives me a good comparison.
Just keep in mind, you want to keep your ding or dent symmetrical; you don't want it all lap sided. So as you can see, I'm just pressing within that line and when I press within that line; you can see now the line is becoming just too straight or almost as straight as compared to the left side and the right side lines. So I am not here to demonstrate that lines are superior than fog, or fog is better than lines, or natural reflection is the best and -- any smart technician, any experienced technician knows that it's not about the reflection; it's how well you know it, how well you understand your reflection is what's going to matter.
My whole purpose for these tutorials is to share my understanding about the lines. I'm not here to say that I'm the best because I'm not, I'll be honest with you, I'm not. But I really understand the lines and I like to share what I know. Not all the time for free but I do like to give once in a while so I am very passionate about paintless dent repair, I'm sure a lot of you guys are out there too.
And again, I'm not trying to prove to anybody anything, and I'm trying to help people who actually want to learn PDR or getting into PDR, this is how you should really do PDR. You should do it clean, keep it dead symmetrical, take your time and do it right. That will be out there being a hack, so that's what we want to practice.
So we're just about wrap this up; I'm just actually tallying the dent in. If you guys have any questions about anything, just E-mail me, denttime@gmail.com. And please subscribe to our videos; I really appreciate it and again E-mail me if you have any questions, denttime@gmail.com. Or you can actually purchase one of these likes at autolecture.com. Thanks a lot guys. Have a good one.
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