#69 Tool Talk and Competition Prep
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What's up, guys? Gene Fetty back at you with another episode of the All Access podcast from Dent Repair Now. This is episode 69. Man, we are flying right along. Getting it to you on Monday, but it's eight o'clock at night, so it's gonna be late Monday, but I'm still gonna make my Monday. Uh, it was Mother's Day weekend.
Shout out to all the mothers out there, my moms, my wife, the mother of my children. Love you all, and, uh, thanks for being moms, 'cause we all wouldn't be here without a mom. So anyways, that is that. Uh, we had an amazing weekend. Uh, I was just a little wore out by the end of the day yesterday, and my brain wasn't in it, and I said, "You know what?
Sorry, [00:01:00] guys, not gonna drop it Monday morning. I'll get it recorded on Monday. We'll still keep the weeks going," uh, but I needed a break, and honestly, it probably would not have been a, uh, very good show if I did it last night. I- it would've been a phone in at best. So, before we jump in, a couple episodes ago, or maybe even over the last couple of episodes, I mentioned that we might be doing some soft skills classes or a seminar or something along those lines, uh, later in the year.
Literally, as I was setting up, uh, to shoot this, right, like setting up the studio... Well, we're in the new studio. Well, the studio is almost there, by the way. Um, had a, an old friend call and ask about some sales stuff, right? This, this dude was really struggling with his PDR sales on the phone. He does ceramic and tint and has his [00:02:00] systems figured out and, you know, says he does very well with those.
But when it comes to PDR sales, really struggling and really lacking. So I gave him some advice. That advice would be go take Keith Cosentino's phone skills course, available on Dent Repair Now. If you would like to take it, we have it for you. Um, and then I gave him like... It couldn't have been a- more than a, a four or five-minute talk on some of our approaches, you know, that we've developed and built over the years.
And that four or five-minute conversation, I'm certain changed his whole outlook and trajectory on, uh, PDR sales. Uh, so just a reminder, keep an eye out. In fact, I probably need to make a page, a link to sign up. Well, if I get that done, the link will be in the show notes. Um, actually- Let's call it this, and I'll have Liv make it tomorrow.
Let's [00:03:00] go to dentrepairnow.com/soft-skills, and we will get a sign-up page where you can drop your info if that is something that you are interested in, even remotely interested in. Uh, what I'm been envisioning is probably fall, uh, a one... Well, it's a shaky table. A, uh, one or two-day event right here at Dent Repair Now, you know, in my- on my home turf, uh, where we can dive into the nitty-gritty of some of the soft skills of business, uh, marketing, sales, maybe just some good general business advice.
Um, so check that out. Dentrepairnow.com/soft-skills, uh, to sign up. Uh, that will probably be live sometime tomorrow afternoon, so that'll be Tuesday the 12th of May. So keep an eye out in case you are listening to this super early. So this episode, uh, I've got some [00:04:00] tools I've been using that are newer that I don't know I've talked much about, uh, so I wanna talk about some of those.
And I leave for Canada in less than 48 hours to head up to Cam Auto for the big event. For me, the glue pull-only competition, the GPR competition, super stoked about that. And the GPR PDR competition, which I competed in last year, is also going on, so it's gonna be a big weekend. Uh, it's Friday and Saturday at Cam Auto.
Uh, I'm sure tickets are still available if you would like to come check it out. Uh, everybody I talked to that came last year as a spectator absolutely loved the event and had a blast and, you know, thought it was worth every penny to come up. So go check that out. I am bringing home that trophy to America for the first-ever glue pull-only competition.
That is- putting that into the [00:05:00] universe. Universe, I'm coming to get my trophy. Let's get after it. So I wanna talk a little bit about that and the tools. I think you guys probably get more excited about tools, so I'm gonna talk about Cam Auto first, and then we'll wrap up with the tools. It's like a cliffhanger.
Dun, dun, dun. If we had sponsors, I would drop a sponsor ad right here, maybe right before I decided which way we were gonna go. Anyways, last year's competition was my first real competition. I did Southern Dent Trials once at Anson. It might not even be Southern D- it might just be the Dent Trials now.
Anyways, I had no intention of, uh, competing. Didn't even- wasn't even on my radar. And somebody backed out, and Christina From Anson was like, "Hey, somebody backed out. You're going in." And, you know, I threw my hundred bucks in or whatever it was and went after it. And [00:06:00] I cracked the paint almost immediately on the fender.
Now, in my defense, it was a Chrysler fender, a hard drop through the body line, uh, with borrowed tools, uh, used too big of a tip. I made some errors, but you can't use heat. Anyways, uh, I think I did pretty good on the door ding, and I know I crushed the glue pull one. I wouldn't really write that up as a, as a true swing at competition because I just sorta got tossed into it.
In fact, I had to go borrow Craig Dyer's readers to be able to see to fix the dents. So I was definitely not dialed in and ready to go. Uh, that was before the days of my clicks. The competition last year was amazing. Uh, in fact, maybe I will link back if I can find it in the m- the episodes. Maybe I'll drop a link to the CAM Auto wrap-up episode that me and Danny did, uh, last year at the event.[00:07:00]
Uh, amazing event. Critiquing myself afterwards, I think I may have been a touch too conservative in the beginning, and then, uh, a bit too maybe stubborn, uh, trying to force things to happen, like to make them happen, and that just isn't the way to... Like, I wasn't letting the metal flow. I think I got hung up trying to force the metal into place.
And because the door was off the car, and it's not an excuse, and I think I've even talked about it before, I believe that the, the frame of the door must have been kinked ever so slightly. And because we couldn't put it on a car and sort of check that, that long line of sight to see what may or may be in or out, um, I was fighting locked up tension, uh, that I couldn't see.
Don't [00:08:00] think I had a shot at winning it. Shout out to Miro for winning it. Amazing repair. Uh, in fact, there were tons of amazing repairs at that, uh, competition. There wasn't a bad repair in sight, and these doors were wicked, wicked smashed. I think my time management was good, uh, and maybe a little too tunnel-visioned, right?
Locked in on, like, trying to get this part instead of looking at the whole picture. So this year, it is my understanding, the last time I talked to Charles from CAM Auto, that it is w- what-- In my competition, it is glue pull only. There are four competitors, so myself and three others. Uh, I can't remember who the fourth guy is, but we've got, uh, Nazar, who is Miroslav's Uh, student.
He won the beginner's, uh, event in Vegas last year. Yeah, last year, where Max took third. Um, so Nazar is coming in, and then Wei Wu [00:09:00] from China, who is a serious, serious contender, man. The guy's a fantastic tech. We worked next to each other last year at the event. Um, man, Wei definitely has it going on. Uh, and I'm sorry, but I can't remember the fourth, uh, competitor.
Anyways, both the same car is my understanding, all four quarter panels. So there's gonna be two gas door side and two non-gas door side. No touching the backside of the panel, right? So no, no distinct advantage for the non-gas door side people access-wise, right? This is completely from the outside. Now, there is a potential that the gas door side could be trickier to repair if the damage stretches back to the gas door.
But, you know, that could just be luck of the draw. Hard to say.
I'm taking a light with me, and I'm sure [00:10:00] there will be lights there. But I believe Charles may have said no lights, right? F-few pure glue pull only repair on the outside with nothing but glue and hammers and knockdowns. That's gonna make it-- That's gonna add an extra layer of difficulty. Uh, I've gone back onto Cam Auto's socials and watched, and he has not been bashful when bashing in those quarter panels.
Um, certainly lateral tension is obviously going to come into play, uh, unlocking, reshaping. Uh, a little, uh, concern is not the wrong word. When I'm planning through these repairs in my head, my concern is, uh, a heavy impact into the jam of the car, where we start jumping over sharp body lines. That can get tricky coming out with glue.
[00:11:00] Uh, and, oh, he's got his robot arm, right? This thing he had making dents and pulling dents. Uh, this is gonna get calibrated, and it's supposed to be one of the judges, uh, and maybe the m-lead judge on the quarter panels. Uh, so we will see what all of that looks like. My goal is to stay calm, which I'm generally pretty good at.
Uh, keep an eye on my time management. Really before I move... I, I may have moved a little too fast last year. Um, unfold and unlock the dent in my head before I even start any of the repairs. And give it all I got. So we have, uh, X number of hours Friday and X number of hours Saturday, and then the judging, and then the, uh, awards are Saturday night.
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watching the quarter panel repairs that, that, uh, Charles has shared, having done a lot of quarter panel repairs myself, worked in a lot of body shops with a lot of guys on glue. Guys, I'm gonna give it all I got. I hope that next week's episode we are wrapping up with the glue pull repair trophy from Cam Auto.
That is, that is my goal, is to bring that trophy home to you guys and show you right here where it's at. Uh, I'm, uh, we're driving up. I'm loading up with, uh, some Keco gear for sure, bringing my K-Powers, um, even borrowing an extra K-Power off of a buddy so I'll have three or four K-Powers. All of my tab straps, my hinge straps.
Um, think we're gonna throw the JVF in with all of the feet and accessories I have for that. Uh, I don't know that we're gonna be able to use a pull tower. Uh, originally it was in the, uh, [00:13:00] basketball arena, stadium that, that they run up there, uh, and the suction plates wouldn't stick to the floor. Well, last week or so, uh, we got an email that it has moved back to Cam Auto proper, so I'm curious to see whether pull towers come into play.
Pull towers, uh, open up a whole new realm of repair for me, um, where you can really spread out and, and remove a lot of metal really clean. Um, I'll be taking the Black Plague straps, uh, because we can get over some contours. I will probably be picking up a couple of the Cam Auto straps, uh, with the constant tension, the springs built into the straps.
Probably be adding some of those to the mix. Um, it's gonna be cool. I think it's gonna be, like, around 60 degrees, and last year we were half inside and half outside. 60 degrees for glue pull, that's a, uh, that's gonna be a [00:14:00] challenge. Uh, and I've not really found any good, good cold weather, uh, cold temp collision glues.
The class at Anson last week, um, was a cool, damp, actually the most humid, uh, class I've ever done. And as I moved into the colder weather glues, right, that stay, uh, more flexible, they don't have any pulling power, any holding power for, uh, lateral. So I think panel heat maintenance is going to be huge, um- Yeah, so head's in a good spot.
Starting to sweat it a little bit, uh, which is a good thing, right? You gotta get a little bit nervous. Uh, if you're not a little bit nervous, you're not pushing yourself. Um, I know that Charles is gonna bring the heat with these repairs, uh, right, these dents. Seeing how bad the doors were, [00:15:00] and then seeing, uh, I think what he's probably using this year is this, like, giant, for the doors at least, this giant ball.
It might even be a lead ball, and he's got a track, and he drops it, and it just smashes the door in to try to make the damage more consistent. Um, those are gnarly. I'm glad-- My shoulders are really glad we're just glue pulling. Um, I have no doubt that the, uh, quarter panels are gonna be rough. Uh, and I'm imagining he's gonna come out with his big, ugly, padded sledgehammer that he loves so much, uh, and he's just gonna be smashing these in.
So hopefully we can raise the bar. Well, not hopefully. We're gonna raise the bar. I'm gonna put the best glue pull I can do out there and really strive for perfection, uh, or as perfect as Charles' repair will let us get to. He may be blowing the paint off of this thing, uh, and sending us to, like, bodywork land.
So wish me luck. Uh, keep an eye out for updates. [00:16:00] Melissa's going up with me, so I'm sure she is going to be running cameras and getting content. And man, we're gonna, we're gonna give it all we got. So trying to bring it home for America, boys and girls, right here. Let's get after it. And if you're going, can't wait to see you there.
Uh, Josh, uh, Kidd, I know you're a listener. Good luck. Excited to see what you do up there. Um, Miroslav, I don't know if you listen or not, maybe you'll catch the, one of the videos, but Miro is judging. Tell Nazar I said good luck. Wei Wu, not sure if you're a, a fan, uh, but you're a great dude, and I'm excited to get up and go head-to-head with you and see what we can do.
So without further ado, let's talk about some tools. Where do we wanna start? Let's start simple here. So this new bag from Anson is pretty slick. So I've had a yellow [00:17:00] shot bag that I got from Polyvance years ago when I bought bumper tools, right, to, to roll out bumpers, and you can do, like, hammer and dolly work on bumpers with that, that shot bag.
It's, like, a square shot bag like this. I think Anson sells some shot bags as well. Anyways, they came out with this leverage bag. Uh, right? It's sand-filled. It's rigid. You can fold it in half to get more bulk. Uh, you can let it roll over things. Your tool will push down into the sand and hold. This is one of those simple tools, and I think this was, like, 20 or 30 bucks.
It was not very expensive This is going to be a handy tool. See me in a year, and I promise this will not be this pretty. These edges are gonna be beat up. This, uh, heavy nylon, uh, tactical, uh, whatever this's called, tactical nylon, I think, is going to be beat up and used and filthy, and I can't wait. [00:18:00] Uh, so these are new in Anson.
Um, check 'em out, and it's another one of those, like, small bang for your buck. It's tough to beat. Um, anyways, the new leverage thing from Anson. Speaking of Anson, super excited about this. I didn't even know this was out until we were at Anson. So my cold glue, uh, I was using... I was really on a kick for a while.
I was using original Glexo mixed with, uh, Sergio's red, uh, solid. Not the, not the, like, gel-looking one, but the solid red. Kinda kneaded them together. I think that was a tip I picked up from Biggs. That pulled fantastic. In fact, I think Mac may still have it on a slide hammer. And I was just talking to somebody online that is using a similar, you know, Frankenstein mix.
Then I switched to, uh, maybe last year, [00:19:00] uh, Sergio's yellow or gold, whatever you wanna call it. Really a great glue. And then this past fall... Actually, I think they may have debuted it... Did they debut it at PDR Expo? They came out with the Glexo Diablo. They had, like, the hail micro set. It's the preloaded dots of cold glue, of Glexo Diablo, which is a different makeup, uh, than any of the other glues I've seen.
It has become my go-to for small, you know, round hail-sized tabs, right? Because that's what they had. Well, when we were at Anson, part of the advanced glue pull class was a section on cold glue. And I'm like, "Vinnie, when are you guys gonna come out with some bigger, um, Diablo," right? "For some bigger tabs so I can get into my bigger round tabs, or I'll knead it out and put it on a, [00:20:00] um, crease tab."
He's like, "Oh, we got it." So we are up to, and I believe this is as big as you can get, the Diablo 32 millimeter preloaded blocks. So I loaded up a small crease tab down in Anson. Uh, I've been... It's been crazy hectic since I've been back. I have not had a chance to load this up yet. But I got a nice preloaded dot of glue, right, with your protective coating on top.
Heat that bad boy up and stick it on. And that's 32 millimeters, so that's like half dollar size. You know, it looks a little smaller on camera, but call it about a half a dollar size. That is going to pull like a freight train. Uh, I'm excited that they have that out. Update on this, right, while we're in here, uh, and I need to do a separate video [00:21:00] on that.
So I bought the Hail Micro, uh, and everything. I actually got, uh, a few of them. I think I got for me, Dave, and Mac. Um, started using them. Well, I'd noticed coming back into, like, call it hail season or maybe just over the last couple of months, that it was still sticky. It was pulling, but it was leaving some extra residue and maybe getting a little spongy.
And I was like, "Well, maybe it's just dirty. Maybe it's time to wear... You know, it's getting wore out." So, uh, took some mineral spirits, soaked off the tabs, melted it off, came back in and cleaned it up, and reloaded my three favorite, uh, you know, call it, like, dime, nickel, quarter, uh, hail tabs. Reloaded them. I forgot how good fresh Diablo pulls.
Ripping high spots with minimal light little residue [00:22:00] that, that muck off or, uh, alcohol are taking right off. Uh, if you've been using Diablo and you feel like it's starting to slip, get rid of that. Reload it with a new Glexo Diablo. You can thank me later. Uh, man, I forgot how good that was right out of the box.
So I think it just aged out. It's... Our shop is super dusty, right, with the roads we're next to. Um, it just gets dirty, right? So get back to clean and go to town. Uh, I think this was also around 30 bucks, so like $10 a load, which is cheap. And then I know the, uh, setup for the small tabs, it's like $140 for the box.
Uh, it works out to, like, $8 per tab. Like, just reload it. Like, you... It's a no-brainer, uh, and super simple. Also, keep an eye out. I will have some tech tip videos on swapping out your cold glue and how to get that Glexo [00:23:00] Diablo set up super fast and ready to go in no time. Right? So there's that. Speaking of being at Anson and dealing, uh, with everybody and having the class, gotta give a shout-out to a listener, uh, fan, and friend, Izzy, from...
Come on. Focus up. There we go. Izzy Does PDR. Or Izzy Does It. Right? Like Easy Does It, but Izzy Does It. Cool custom paddle. Uh, I think I've shared some knockdowns and stuff he's made for me before. Cool custom paddle. Uh, great weight. Uh, somewhere in between my Stinger and the VIP paddle I've been using.
Great middle of the road. And he made me a custom titanium-tipped metal knockdown. Man, that thing knocks down sharp. These aren't for sale or anything. These are just Izzy being Izzy, [00:24:00] but pretty cool little tool. Izzy, thanks so much. Thanks for coming to class. Thanks for being a fan and a listener, and thank you for the cool tools.
Right? Very cool. Uh, he even sent one of these up for Mac. Class act, Izzy. I appreciate you, brother. And I'm trying not to die from a dry throat. Ah. Let's give another shout-out, if I can keep this together, to Mark from Perfect Pull. We were talking on the, uh, phone a few weeks ago and I said, "Hey, dude, don't you, don't you have a pellet glue?"
And he goes, "Did you get the pellet gun?" And we all know I love my JBF, uh, gun. So I wanted to give the Perfect Pull pellets a go. And, uh, these things have been awesome. In fact, I was setting up some, [00:25:00] uh, hard tension, uh, on a fender the other day, and I have since switched the JBF gun over to the Perfect Pull to give her a good run.
I had a hell of a time even getting the tabs to release with alcohol, right? Still gotta watch your temperatures. It is a slightly warmer weather, um, collision glue. Mark, thank you for the glue. This stuff pulls like a freaking freight train. I kind of forgot how good it was. I, I had some when we were doing the GPR master class years ago.
I, I had a box and, and we burned through some, and I'm sure I was just doing big, huge pulls in the middle of summer. Um, that's good stuff. So that's, uh, I think that's available at perfectpulldent.com, I believe is Mark's website. If it's not, look up Perfect Pull dent repair and it'll come up. So shout out, Mark.
Thank you. That glue has been fantastic. Um, I dig it. [00:26:00] While we're on the glue tip, our boy Keith Cosentino with the Super Straight tabs. Uh, these things... It's... Listen, real talk, it is not an everyday, every dent tab for me. It's just not. However, and I've mentioned it before and, and in fact, somebody went back and commented on a video, I think it was from like February 10th, so that's probably the 9th or 10th of February when we put out the episode.
So- About two months ago, three months ago. Anyways, these tabs pull just stupid, stupid sharp. In fact, the last car I used it on, uh, it was a burgundy minivan quarter panel. Minivan or SUV quarter panel. Sharp shot. So got it out, got the adapter set up, glued it on. [00:27:00] I start to pull and I'm like, "Man, I should've shot a video of this," because this sharp, nasty dent, uh, would've been perfect for this.
Then I'm like, all right, after the first pull, then I sent it, and hot damn, almost gone on the first pull. This is something that, you know, it would've been 10 or 12 pulls, uh, with a dead center, like up, open it up, up, open it up, up, open it up, and keep spreading it out. These tabs get in so deep, uh, and they pull almost like a stretched tab.
It's like Keith took these and pre-stretched 'em to make 'em pull. There has to be something to that, that tapered shape that is making the face really plunger pull, right? Like instead of a flat pull like this, it's making a suctiony pull to the center, and it is just... Man, these are my new favorite sharp [00:28:00] dent glue tabs.
Uh, so you do need the adapter, but it all comes in the kit. I should have brought the box back. Uh, anyways, four different sizes, two different m- thicknesses. So the greens are your thin, super thin, and the yellows, the faces are thicker. So yellow's gonna pull a little bit more facey. Green's gonna pull a little bit more, uh, shafty, if those are technical terms enough for you.
Anyways, super straight tabs from Black Plague PDR. These things are fantastic. Thank you, Keith, uh, for designing these, and I've actually had these since these were super secret prototype tabs, and they came in a Ziploc bag. So always appreciate you and appreciate the chance to, uh, take a swing at something that's brand new.
Speaking of brand new, at ANSON, I saw our old buddy Peter from VIP, and he's got some [00:29:00] new tips out. Peter, I hope I'm not, like, dropping anything too early. I would imagine you already made a bunch of these. These things are cool as all get out, and not just because they're pretty, but because they are functional.
So these are the traction tips. I should've brought the bags back for these too. These are the traction tips. So let me see. Yep. So traction tips. If you can see, they've got- Texture on them. Now, I'm not gonna spill the beans on how he said he has these made, but these are pretty cool. So super small. Let's look at the middle one.
Right. So standard 5/16 thread on there for you with the O-ring, and then it's almost, not quite a micro tip because you can't, uh, thread all the way in, but micro tip-esque. [00:30:00] Right? Zero overreach or almost zero overreach from the threads, so no problem sneaking through factory holes or manufactured holes or whatever you need.
These push, and I, I don't know if they're composite. I don't... Let's see. No. They steel? Oh, they are steel. They are. It is a steel tab, but it's got that texture on it. So the, the idea there, and I think his first textured tip was like the hedgehog, so it's a bunch of points. So it kinda grabs and wants to crinkle and do a little bit of shrinkage action on the metal.
Right. So these are steel, texture-y, same kind of idea, but they won't slip, or I guess I don't wanna say they won't slip. They are less likely to slip, and they give you a... That texture on the backside just gives a little bit [00:31:00] of a drawing in push. Um, having used these on a few cars already since I was back from Anson, fantastic tips.
Uh, so it's... These are two, four, and eight. I'm imagining that those are in millimeters. So two is pretty tiny. Four, not quite so tiny, and eight is actually getting up to a pretty decent sized tip. Right. So these are very cool. I need to get on some hail with those, uh, and really work and push and see how that traction tip really holds and draws up.
Um, as always, Peter, fantastic design. Uh, and in the pack came these new composite pushing tips. Two different durometers. [00:32:00] Uh, orange are hard, black are soft. So similar style, right? Similar style, black and orange O-rings. Oh. One is hard and one is soft. So same kind of idea. You're getting that little bit of a traction-y push.
You're getting, uh... So the soft ones, there's gonna be a soft push- A harder one will be a hard push, but that harder push is gonna be clean, right? Much like my favorite phenolic tips with some traction so you're not getting the slip. Uh, and two different sizes, two different materials, so four different tips here.
I've not pushed with these ones yet, these particular ones out of the bag, but I have some hard ones from Peter from a couple years back that are great. I like them in motorcycle tanks 'cause they're not gonna mar up the [00:33:00] inside of the, uh... You're not gonna chew up the coating on the inside of the panel.
Um, good stuff. Man, I love all of Peter's stuff. He's-- It's just simple, it's small, and it works, right? Like, that's what it's all about.
Shock blockers are amazing. I know I have a problem with shock blockers. Not a problem like Nick, they're amazing tools. I mean, I physically have a problem. I own too many of them. Um, in fact, I, I did some math and I definitely have a problem. Um, but I don't like to change tips. I just wanna grab the knockdown that has the tip that's there.
Well, I've had one on my cart, and while we were at Anson, uh, Craig, uh, gifted these to everybody in the class, including me. Thank you, sir. Uh, the shock blocks are shock blocker XL, right? So these are bigger. Right here is your...[00:34:00]
Without a s- Here's your standard shock blocker, and here's your XL shock blocker. So I don't know, maybe a 50% increase in, uh, girth, uh, extra almost inch in length, little bit easier to hold. Nice for getting out and working bigger crowns. So I've put my VIP leather tips... Come on. There we go. I've put my VIP leather tips on these, right?
So this little tip, Peter has it labeled as blending, uh, but I love it as a knockdown for crowns, right? I can get out and really work clean. There's just something about how leather works metal down. Uh, anyways, check out these XLs. I think it's an underrated, underserved, um, knockdown out there, uh, if you're doing big damage, right?
Now I've got [00:35:00] two of these. I got it set up with the 13 and then the one smaller, the 11 millimeter, um, leather tip. So these are becoming my crown go-to knockdowns. Good stuff. When I was in Italy- Got to see our old buddy, Jonathan Vandenfontyne. And I guess these aren't new, but somehow I missed them.
Jonathan, you need to do a little better job advertising over here in the States. So the JVF tip, that's the rectangle tip from Kiko on the blue hammer. It's been around for ages. Is absolutely my favorite knockdown or my favorite hammer face for direct to metal striking for crowns. It's like it's just the, the radius, the radii of both directions.
It's per- like you have to swing... You have to like intentionally make a bad strike to get it [00:36:00] or like to hit a bad strike. Ugh. So when we were in Italy, uh, he gave a set of these to Bryce, and I was like, "Man, these are awesome." So check these out. These are the JVF mini tips, call it, right? Three sizes, small, medium and large.
Um, he has... I'll show you, I'll show you on this middle one because I've just been using the heck out of this. It's got that same beautiful radius both directions. So this is super clean. When you're coming down on the panel, you have to be way off of axis before you run it into any problems. Like unbelievable.
Jonathan personally hand polishes every one of these tips. Um, [00:37:00] this has just become an absolute crown killer for me. So Bryce uses the big JVF head, um, to do like door edge stamp marks right where the, uh, oh, excuse me, where the inner prints through the outer. That's like one of his go-to knockdowns, and I keep a knockdown with the JVF head just for that.
These are even dialed in a little bit more. I can be a little bit more precise with them, and again, just absolutely super clean with, uh, getting those down to flat and clean. Like way less cleanup. Those are absolutely coming with me to Canada for sure. All right. I feel much better about this episode than whatever I would've brought for you guys yesterday or last night.
Uh, I was just kind of wore out. I needed a weekend [00:38:00] off. I am not a machine, and I'm a little bit older now. Now I'm 50. Anyways, K Auto event this week. If you're coming, I hope to see you there. Come over and say hi. Let's grab a selfie. Wish me luck Bringing that bad boy home for us. Um,
events coming up. Oh, yeah, events coming up. So PDR Expo is coming up, uh, September 25, 6, 26, 7. Look it up, pdrexpo.com. It's coming up. Guys, we need some people out there, right? Like, this is a great show and a great location. It's at the Rio this year, so nicer, fancier hotel, and they are really stepping up with education.
So I'm going to be part of a, I guess you would call it a roundtable, open discussion, um, talking about networking and using... building relationships, helping them to grow [00:39:00] personally and professionally in your career. Like, amazing, amazing stuff. You gotta do that. And we're gonna have some hands-on, so I'm doing an all cold glue class.
It's gonna be broken down into two sessions. First one is, like, a standard class. I'm gonna talk all things cold glue, good, bad, the ugly, what's out there, tools to work with, tools to check out, different glues, what I think of everything, right? We're gonna go there. And then second session is going to be live.
We're gonna have a live car in the room, and not only are we gonna be doing live pulls, I'm gonna be pulling some of you out of the audience to come down and work and get your glue pull game better live right in Vegas at the PDR Expo. Go check that out. I saw today that the tickets, uh, are live and on sale now.
Uh, rooms are available. Uh, competitions are open. Mac is going back to go after that PDR Beginners Cup. Uh, we're calling this the year of the [00:40:00] Feddies. That is what we want this to be. Um, yeah, so check that out. Also, don't forget that soft skills, I will have Liv build it up, dentrepairnow.com/soft-skills to get on the list for that soft skills course that we're gonna be holding here at Dent Repair Now this fall.
Super excited for that, and I know that will pay big dividends to a bunch of people. And with that, that is that. I think I'm going home. I'm gonna get a good night's sleep, come back. Got a handful of cars to knock out between tomorrow and Wednesday. We will get all of those done. I'm gonna load up all my gear, get in the 4Runner and head to Montreal to do a little bit of glue pulling.
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