What is a Body Hammer and Dolly?

Question: What are body hammers? 

Antony: Body hammers are special hammers used to pop out dents and creases in metal.

Question: What can you use these body hammers on?   

Antony: Well you can use these tools on anything that's made out of metal. For example my teacher and I were working on a stool made out of metal. 

Question: Are all the body hammers the same? 

Antony: No not all the body hammers are the same. My shop teacher for instance   has a whole body hammer kit here are some of the hammers. 

Question: What is a dolly? 

 

Antony: A dolly is a tool made out of very strong metal. Now there is two ways of using the hammer and dolly. "Hammer on dolly" which stretches metal and "hammer off dolly" which moves the  metal. 

Question: How is it that these tool fix dents in metal? 

Antony: Well as you can see in the picture I put the dolly under and hit it with the body hammer over. 

Question: How do I know this actually works? 

Antony: Here is where one of the stools in my class had a dent popping upwards. As you can see it's not flat. 

Question: Did you fix it with the body hammer and dolly?

 

Antony: Of course with the body hammer and dolly I was able to flatten out the dent as you can see above. To fix this I used hammer on dolly. 

Question: What does each side of the hammer do?

Antony: Well this side of the hammer is used to stretch out metal in a overall larger area. 

 

Question: What does the other side of the body hammer do?

Antony: This side of the body hammer is not as flat and big so it's used to hit smaller areas.