Dale and I played around the other day and managed to get his 16 gauge dent raiser back up and running. The instructions would be better with some diagrams. I hear you on your appraisal of Dale, I may have a Ph.D in physics, but Dale is one smart guy, smarter than me, I think. It is honor to be his friend.
PhysDoc, what did you guys come up with as a solution? I was thinking about what the problem might have been, but without having the dent raiser in hand, I'd have been just guessing. I've rebuilt some air and hydraulic cylinders with O ring piston seals that became obstinate due to a slightly out of spec O ring, or one made of a different material that was incompatible with the fluid, or an O ring that was rolling slightly out of its' groove and binding the piston in the bore. I had one O ring that was given a light smear of a good synthetic grease to ease assembly, and it swelled almost twice original size. Now I'll probably get a bunch of PM's from guys wanting to know what brand of grease that was.
