Dent removal, welding and spraying: books - bodywork repair

The Complete Guide to Auto Body Repair (2nd Edition)

Knowing how to repair your car without taking it to the body shop is a valuable skill for any car lover. If you want to restore, modify, or just fix up any car, from collector to custom, this is the book for you.

In this updated and revised edition, author Dennis Parks covers new tools and techniques for dealing with ever-changing vehicular guidelines and technologies. New photography and updated step-by-step projects cover the latest information on panel adhesives, improved repair strategies, unibody vehicles, media blasting, panel overhaul and replacement, and tools and techniques for water-based paint products.

"The Complete Guide to Auto Body Repair" provides all the information you'll need to deal with any bumps, bangs, and bruises your car encounters, as well as the many repairs required during a car restoration project.
From tools to materials to techniques, this book takes you all the way through the process. Learn how to disassemble, repair, and reassemble bodywork, as well as how to prepare surfaces for paint. This guide equips you with all the information needed to return your car to its former glory and avoid paying a body shop for work you can do yourself.

Haynes Car Bodywork Repair Manual: Car bodywork and paintwork - From paint touch-up to major repairs

Haynes manual over bodywork repair, of the wegwerken of simple scratches until the replacement of complete panels.

• Useful advice for estimating damage after accidents and working with the spray gun.
• Step-by-step instructions with more than 500 photos.

Automotive Body Repair and Painting Manual (USA) - Damage Repair, Painting, Rust Repair - Haynes TechBook

This Haynes TechBook is a complete photographic guide showing car care and detailing, rust prevention as well as body repair and painting with full-color sections on minor repairs and painting. Includes damage repair, painting, rustproofing and undercoating, tools and equipment, repair of minor dents and rust damage, metal working techniques, major rust repair, body component replacement, sanding and painting, car care and detailing, and welding. Also covers maintaining and preserving the paint, body and interior of your car, how to choose a good paint and body shop, door and glass replacement and adjustment, and trim and accessory removal and installation.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Maintaining and preserving the paint, body and interior
Chapter 3: Damage repair: Doing it yourself or having it done
Chapter 4: Tools and working facilities
Chapter 5: Minor body repairs
Chapter 6: Major body repair
Chapter 7: Body component replacement
Chapter 8: Preparation for painting
Chapter 9: Painting
Chapter 10: Doors and glass
Chapter 11: Trim and accessories
Chapter 12: Welding

Sheet Metal Fabrication - Techniques and Tips for Beginners and Pros

In our mechanized day of mass production, the craft of hand-forming sheet metal into compound curves and dashing fins and fenders is fast becoming a lost art. Eddie Paul is a master at sheet metal fabrication (among other accomplishments), and in this book he gives readers the means to mold their own sheet metal creations.

Paul's engagingly written book talks about the necessary tools and how to use them; how to choose, prepare and work with the right material; how to make forms and mock-ups, and much more. Whether you want to mold a fender for a custom car or just learn about this intriguing process, Sheet Metal Fabrication is a thoroughly readable reference book and guide.

Professional Sheet Metal Fabrication

The number-one resource for sheet metal workers old and new. Join veteran metalworker Ed Barr as he walks you through the ins and outs of planning a sheet metal project, acquiring the necessary tools and resources, doing the work, and adding the perfect finishing touches for a seamless final product.

From his workshop at McPherson College - home of the only accredited four-year degree in automotive restoration technology - Barr not only demonstrates how the latest tools and products work, but also explains why sheet metal reacts the way it does to a wide variety of processes.

He includes clear directions for shaping metal using hand tools, the English Wheel, the pneumatic planishing hammer, and other machines, and discusses a variety of ways to cut and join metal through welding, soldering, brazing, and riveting.

Dent repair and automotive patch panel fabrication are covered in detail. Readers are also given tips on copying shapes and building foam, wire, and wood station bucks to use as guides during shaping.
This is truly the most detailed enthusiast-focused sheet metal how-to book on the market.