I’ve got to try using one of these dent remover techniques, thanks Wisebread. The first involves applying a chunk of dry ice to the center of the dent and then letting a few minutes of time for the dent to pop back out. The second shows using a hair dryer and CO2 air cannister.

Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror rants about checking the source before perpetuating false information encouraged me decide to actually try this on a dent on one of our vehicles before passing along to you:

The real problem is that this erroneous information was echoed by blogger B, and then echoed again by blogger C. At no point did anyone stop to actually verify the claims of blogger A, even in the most rudimentary, basic of ways.

Well, that’s what I wanted to do before making this post, but I keep forgetting to buy a CO2 cannister.

Atwood was talking about Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash called Silverlight, not inexpensive dent removal techniques, but I decided to take Atwood’s words to heart and see how good at least one of these two techniques actually worked. The YouTube video quality was pretty lousy and made it difficult to see how good it worked which increased my skepticism level so this proved to be a good test.

The problem? We didn’t have any dry ice laying around. My wife has a hair dryer but I use a compressor, not C02 cannisters. Therefore, I need to remember the CO2 cannister and where does one buy dry ice at anyway?

Any readers try out either of these techniques? I think it would make for a good future Hmmcast. Hopefully one that wasn’t as dark as yesterday’s.

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