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Sept 25, 2006 21:26:42 GMT
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I've had a go at making complex repair panels for my bug many moons ago, when i was younger and sharper and less short tempered. IT ISN'T " EASY " although i did make a lot, saving a packet ( its interesting to note, that my panels are the ones that are still ok 12 years later....hah) Yes, you can become very good given time, but as someone else said, its not a skill thats " needed " any more...  |
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Sept 25, 2006 21:38:47 GMT
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I was told a story recently about a guy that did a very similar job to this. Apparently he was restoring a Morris (I think) at work - just a 'normal' bodyshop, not a specialist and didn't know you could get the panel off the shelf, the guys left him working on the car at the end of the day and when they got back in the morning there he was with the perfectly hand-formed panel that he'd bashed out of sheet steel overnight.
Even if the skill is a pretty basic one, you have to admire the bloke's talent and patience don't you? Impressive stuff.
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Bioshock
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Sept 26, 2006 1:43:59 GMT
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I'm blown away! The bloke has deffo got a special talent  |
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madmart
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Sept 26, 2006 2:25:01 GMT
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This guys patience and attention to detail, thats truly amazing stuff ! |
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Sept 26, 2006 5:24:49 GMT
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I trained and qualified as a coatch builder when I left school.
I can make wings rear quarters at a push bonnets roof pannels are a no no.
There is two kinds of pannel crafter.
One needs and uses a english wheel,linisher and power hammer.
The tru craftsman uses just a handfull of hammers dollys some heat for shrinking ect.
The dude who trained me was a tru craftsman and always said you gotta be born with it the tru skill cant be learnt.
Isnt it tru that aston martin are using presses these days?
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slater
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Sept 26, 2006 5:52:12 GMT
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Isnt it tru that aston martin are using presses these days? Of course, On the production side of thins they do. I don't see what it achives by not using the technology when its avalible?? They do have a guy sitting there with a hammer and dolly folding over the seams tho! |
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Sept 26, 2006 7:19:06 GMT
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What has been said already basically.
I'm always impressed by anyone who can fabricate anything neatly, I'm just too ham-fisted and impatient.
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Stu
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Sept 26, 2006 7:55:27 GMT
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Awesome, that is a proper restoration! I get the impression the guy could fabricate pretty much anything if you gave him something to copy!  |
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Sept 26, 2006 8:19:55 GMT
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qwerty
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Sept 26, 2006 8:23:25 GMT
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He is amazing wish I had a fraction of his talent (i'd be happy with being able to weld)
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Sept 26, 2006 8:55:05 GMT
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Things are only EASY when you only know how to! |
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Last Edit: Sept 26, 2006 8:55:34 GMT by tetsujin
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Sept 26, 2006 8:56:02 GMT
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truly outstanding ;D
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Sept 26, 2006 9:32:31 GMT
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patiants plays a massive part in it.
Something I am losing by the day at the minute.............
Respect to the dude......
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mercmad
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Sept 26, 2006 12:14:19 GMT
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flippin heck the mans a genius!! Let's see container car to Thailand £700. About £20,000 worth of resto at UK prices £1,000, £700 back again, so say £2000 all in. Yup sounds ideal!! It's a global economy right. Just need to set up an office in the UK to channel the flood of work! ps what's that about the samba forum slagging him off. Are they mad! The Seppo's used to send cars to germany after the second world war,to take advantage of the skills possesed by Starving ex Stuka builders.Then the phillipines were discovered in the 80's as a place to take advantage of high skill levels and pitiful pay rates. The phillipinos soon realised that "Joe" was ripping them off and that lurk died out. Now ,they are sending cars to Hong Kong,and I think you will find that sending cars to India may cause problems with their buracracy...I know it is almost impossible to get old cars out of India. Spain also had superior panel beaters,they claim to have invented the concept of sheet metal work,building suits of Armour and I've had a car body built by Spaniard here years ago.His only tools being hammers and Block of wood with a special shaped hole in the center. |
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