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Why experienced drivers keep an old football in the garage

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What treasures are hidden behind the garage doors: traditionally, this “place of power” has become a warehouse for consumer goods, along the house-house-garbage can route. However, some things,

Why experienced drivers keep an old football in the garage
What treasures are hidden behind the garage doors: traditionally, this “place of power” has become a warehouse for consumer goods, along the house-house-garbage can route. However, some things, albeit quite “civilian” use, sometimes come in handy in the garage – when repairing a car. For example a football.

We all have small apartments, pantries are the many new buildings and it’s a full house. Where should you put them? That’s right, in the garage – suddenly needed. Thus, the car room turns into a warehouse of necessary, not very necessary and completely unnecessary junk, which is smeared in a thin layer on shelves and cabinets, taking up more and more space.

In three out of four cases, the car simply does not fit in the garage. There is “good” there: old clothes that “will still serve”, bedding “do you use for rags”, carpets and furniture “then we will take it to the dacha when we build the house”, children’s toys “you’ll have children , they will come in handy” and much more. The “experienced” car owners can often find a football on the shelves. But no, not to drive it across the field. There are other reasons for this.

The ball is exactly the case when something that has not been used for its intended purpose for a long time is really worth keeping in the garage. Since it is round, you can easily and quickly level out those same “traces of operation” that appear in large numbers on every car that “lives” in the city. The main thing is that it does not require any special skills and tools. Just a ball and a car pump with a needle nozzle. Because we blow the ball off, inflate it and lower it again. But first things first.

A football “shell” will come in handy when a dent has “formed” on the body. Of course, it does not happen by itself there, but children on scooters and bicycles, “neat” neighbors and shopping carts regularly “decorate” the car with such markings. Usually this is a small but noticeable damage, which is why you should not argue, but with such an “order” you also do not want to drive. It would also be necessary to repair, preferably without financial injections. And you can do it with the help of a ball.

Each hinged element of the body – doors, fenders, hood, trunk – is a complex structure consisting of a “skin”, a decorative external element and a supporting structure or frame. Frames actually. If a dent has formed on the “skin”, it can be corrected. Craftsmen do it with special hooks and suction cups, call it a PDR repair, and in the garage and on their own you can do it with an ordinary ball.

To do this, you just need to remove the internal plastic covering – for example, a door card – push the “kolobok” in a deflated state directly under the damaged area and place it with an emphasis on the frame. Then – slowly, slowly, pump it up and watch the process from both sides. Correct the position if necessary. Once the metal “remembers” its factory condition, we stop. For beauty it remains only to polish.

At parting – advice: do not rush to pull the pump needle out of the ball, try not to let it slip out. It’s easier to work and then retrieve the ball.

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We all have small apartments, pantries are the many new buildings and it’s a full house. Where should you put them? That’s right, in the garage – suddenly needed. Thus, the car room turns into a warehouse of necessary, not very necessary and completely unnecessary junk, which is smeared in a thin layer on shelves and cabinets, taking up more and more space.

In three out of four cases, the car simply does not fit in the garage. There is “good” there: old clothes that “will still serve”, bedding “do you use for rags”, carpets and furniture “then we will take it to the dacha when we build the house”, children’s toys “you’ll have children , they will come in handy” and much more. The “experienced” car owners can often find a football on the shelves. But no, not to drive it across the field. There are other reasons for this.

The ball is exactly the case when something that has not been used for its intended purpose for a long time is really worth keeping in the garage. Since it is round, you can easily and quickly level out those same “traces of operation” that appear in large numbers on every car that “lives” in the city. The main thing is that it does not require any special skills and tools. Just a ball and a car pump with a needle nozzle. Because we blow the ball off, inflate it and lower it again. But first things first.

A football “shell” will come in handy when a dent has “formed” on the body. Of course, it does not happen by itself there, but children on scooters and bicycles, “neat” neighbors and shopping carts regularly “decorate” the car with such markings. Usually this is a small but noticeable damage, which is why you should not argue, but with such an “order” you also do not want to drive. It would also be necessary to repair, preferably without financial injections. And you can do it with the help of a ball.

Each hinged element of the body – doors, fenders, hood, trunk – is a complex structure consisting of a “skin”, a decorative external element and a supporting structure or frame. Frames actually. If a dent has formed on the “skin”, it can be corrected. Craftsmen do it with special hooks and suction cups, call it a PDR repair, and in the garage and on their own you can do it with an ordinary ball.

To do this, you just need to remove the internal plastic covering – for example, a door card – push the “kolobok” in a deflated state directly under the damaged area and place it with an emphasis on the frame. Then – slowly, slowly, pump it up and watch the process from both sides. Correct the position if necessary. Once the metal “remembers” its factory condition, we stop. For beauty it remains only to polish.

At parting – advice: do not rush to pull the pump needle out of the ball, try not to let it slip out. It’s easier to work and then retrieve the ball.

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