FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
ASE B3 Vocab AUTO COLLISION REPAIR &
REFINISHING EXAM STUDY GUIDE
SOLUTIONS
Body Hammers - Ans:✔✔-Used to move (by tapping) damaged sheet metal back to its original contour
Stretching - Ans:✔✔-Increasing the surface area of metal
Shrinking - Ans:✔✔-Decreasing the surface area of metal during repair
Dollies - Ans:✔✔-Steel blocks that have various crowned surfaces
Spoon - Ans:✔✔-Used to spread out the force of a hammer blow
Picks\Pry Picks - Ans:✔✔-Rods that are designed to be inserted inside a panel to raise low spots
Slide Hammer - Ans:✔✔-Useful for adjusting panels and raising damage, connected to the panel by a
screw or attached to a welded rod.
Body Chisel - Ans:✔✔-Used to raise a damaged body line
Metal Files - Ans:✔✔-Used to identify high and low areas in a panel
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Bull's-eye Pick - Ans:✔✔-Used to make raising low spots much easier, looks like a big clamp
Panel Flanger - Ans:✔✔-Used to make flanges
Hand Punch - Ans:✔✔-manually makes 5/16" diameter holes in sheet metal
Mixing Board - Ans:✔✔-Designed to be used when mixing body filler
Spreader - Ans:✔✔-Used when mixed filler is applied to the low area
Surform Tool (cheese grater) - Ans:✔✔-When filler has partially cured, it can be leveled with this
Long Boards - Ans:✔✔-Used to sand filler on both low-crown and high-crown surfaces
Sanding Blocks - Ans:✔✔-Used to sand body filler (general term)
Sanding Stick - Ans:✔✔-Tool that should be used to final sand filler
Grinder - Ans:✔✔-Used to remove metal and paint
Orbital Sander - Ans:✔✔-Spins a coarse disk at high speed to rapidly sand filler
Spot Weld Cutters - Ans:✔✔-Bits are used to drill out spot welds
Air punch/Flanger - Ans:✔✔-Air tool that is used to cut 5/16" diameter holes along the edge of a panel
Cut-off tool - Ans:✔✔-air tool that spins a fiber cut-off wheel, which cuts metal
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