Well, even if he doesn't come out to Boondoggle, maybe we could set up a
Dentathon Day - we get a bunch of cars that need de-denting, and he meets
us somewhere. Maybe we could get a group discount? I have a bunch of
dents that he could fix on my car...
Jim
At 04:57 PM 1/3/2002 -0800, Kelly, Katie wrote:
>That is almost a brilliant idea! He'd make a mint!
>
>Peter, you're talking to him first. Why don't you suggest it? Let's hope
>he's not a huge football fan, though.
>
>Katie
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carl Merritt [mailto:CMerritt@luminous.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:55 PM
>To: Kelly, Katie; Craig Haggart, SSRL Accelerator Ops Group;
>BA-AUTOX@autox.team.net; PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM
>Subject: RE: paintless dent removal
>
>
>Give him a call and ask him to come to Boondoggle! I can just see it now,
>him walking up and down grid with his nifty tools, or volunteering to help
>Tech while pointing out all those nasty dents that he could just pop out
>right quick while you wait...
>
>-Carl
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kelly, Katie [mailto:kkelly@spss.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:40 PM
> > To: Craig Haggart, SSRL Accelerator Ops Group;
> > BA-AUTOX@autox.team.net;
> > PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM
> > Subject: RE: paintless dent removal
> >
> >
> > Okay, I live in the North Bay, so what do I do? I want to
> > call this Brad guy, too!
> >
> > Katie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig Haggart, SSRL Accelerator Ops Group
> > [mailto:haggart@SLAC.Stanford.EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:38 PM
> > To: BA-AUTOX@AUTOX.TEAM.NET; Kelly, Katie; PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM
> > Subject: Re: paintless dent removal
> >
> >
> > > Just how large was this dent? I was told my dent, which
> > > doesn't seem that large to me, is too large for DentPro.
> >
> > The dent was easily 6" high by maybe 4" wide, which I had assumed
> > was much too large for DentPro-type operations. I'd heard that
> > they could generally only pull dents about the size of a quarter.
> > When I went to a body shop to get an estimate, they told me that
> > I needed an appointment first -- yes, an appointment to get an
> > estimate! -- but as I was walking out, the front-desk person
> > mentioned that I might want to talk to the guy in the parking lot
> > with the white truck. It turned out to be Brad. He took one
> > look at my large dent and correctly concluded that he could pop
> > out the panel and treat the resulting small dents as if they were
> > door dings. That's what comes from experience, I guess!
> >
> > By the way, Brad quoted me $125 to fix just that dent. Doing
> > additional work on the same panel is only about $35 more, so I
> > asked him to give me a quote on doing the whole car: the big dent
> > in the rear quarter panel, a small dent on the same panel near
> > the passenger door, a standard parking-lot door ding on the
> > driver's side, a rock ding on the hood, and another tiny rock
> > ding on the front fender. He said he'd do them all for $200. I
> > couldn't refuse. :)
> >
> > --
> > -Craig Haggart
> > haggart@slac.stanford.edu
> > Sunnyvale, California
> > '96 Miata M Edition
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