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May 11, 2017 21:12:53 GMT
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insert code here Hi everyone,
I thought I'd share some of the things I get up to, they are all car projects, but not necessarily about just one project.
I'll start with the MGB GT I'm restoring, it's got the usual rot in the floors, sills & wheelarches, I had the body shotblasted, so I can see what I've got to work with, as always this process takes no prisoners & what you thought was a solid shell soon evaporates quicker than money does buying new repair panels! I'm sure you've seen loads of these projects, they are all pretty much the same, so I won't bore with too much of that, but show how I make or repair the outside body panels, with ultimate aim of using no body filler, it maybe a bit ambitious, but that's the plan.
I started with the door skin, the skin does not have much, if any curve front to back, but curves top to bottom to varying degrees, this is how it happened..
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Cheers Martin
No matter how clever you think you are, stupidity is always one step ahead of you
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May 10, 2017 19:56:58 GMT
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Wotcha folks,
I'm Martin, I hail from Brum, been into cars all my life, love making things. I trained as paint sprayer as an apprentice with the Midland Red Central Works in Edgbaston, when it was still about. Along with painting, I learnt signwriting and thought this would be the career path I'd prefer in life, so went self-employed at 23, now at 52 I have my own sign business in Aston, fabricating signs in aluminium,stainless & m/s, mostly self taught in fabrication. Still do a lot of truck graphics, but nothing with paint brushes any more, vinyl graphics just took over.
First car was a Mini 1000, rebuild that with 1275 Cooper S engine & brakes as you do, slightly customised that until it got stolen, followed that with Yellow MK2 RS2000, that got pinched too, so bought a van lol.
Very much like the classics, Jaguars, Lotus, MG's, currently playing with an MGB GT to be a daily driver. Obsessed at the moment with panel making old school using my Edwards wheeling machine, been on a couple of metal shaping courses and have learned a lot from the metalshaping sites on tinternet.
This seems like a great site & hope contribute with some of the stuff I make. Cheers
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Cheers Martin
No matter how clever you think you are, stupidity is always one step ahead of you
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May 10, 2017 11:41:43 GMT
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This is before I flanged it
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Last Edit: May 10, 2017 20:25:05 GMT by maxakarudy
Cheers Martin
No matter how clever you think you are, stupidity is always one step ahead of you
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May 10, 2017 11:33:03 GMT
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Wow! How do you bend a panel that already has a lip in it? Or if it's the other way around, how do you bend a lip into a contoured sheet without it going straight at the lip? You put the shape/double curature in first, then flange it. The bumper recess, I used a hammer to stretch the metal, then tidied it up on a stake
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Last Edit: May 10, 2017 11:39:07 GMT by maxakarudy
Cheers Martin
No matter how clever you think you are, stupidity is always one step ahead of you
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Cheers Martin
No matter how clever you think you are, stupidity is always one step ahead of you
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