Originally Posted by onehundred80
In the mid sixties I was picking up my car from the dealers body shop after a little bodywork due to a fender bender and I watched in awe as a guy filled a big dent in the vertical side of a fender. How he managed to keep that lead in place I have no idea. It was a large area and if I had tried I would have had pounds of lead on the floor. He had a what I would call a moleskin and was smoothing out just the top skin that he kept molten. You just have to learn the knack I guess, but amazing to see as there seemed to be no step between steel and lead.
In the early 2000's, I was at a meeting of a group of local body shop owners. The "entertainment" for the night was an old, old guy who did a leading demonstration, just to show all us younger guys what that was all about. Like your experience, the guy looked like a magician or something, the way he made it work.