Yep, you use the exact same soldering iron steam trick, just being more mindfull of the heat because of the finish.
Drop filling does indeed mean dropping... drops of finish on the repair site. Toothpicks work ok, my favorite way to apply the drops is with a plain steel guitar string with a tiny loop bent into the end, so that a drop of finish will sit right in the little loop and not drop off before you want it to. You put a drop on, it shrinks way back, you put on another, it shrinks back, repeat untill the finish is proud of the surface by a little. If the dent is fairly deep, things get more complicated because it will need to be filled with something that does not shrink as much as nitro, like CA, and then ideally topped with nitro so that you avoid witness lines. Sometimes people luck out and get a CA fills looking good, but this guy is probably not going to buy it.
The hardest part is being patient enough to let the fill fully cure, it is so tempting to try to rub it out before its ready, especially when the customer is calling you every day not understanding how such a tiny area could take so long.
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