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Shall I regret this? Unboarded the garage, pushed the car outside, vacuumed up then loaded the angle grinder up with a blue polystrip disc and started to have a go at the "repaired" rear quarter. Uncovered the seam between the new metal and the swage- heck knows why he didn't butt up lower down and not lose the coachline. The whole length uncovered. It was well buried. Zip, clang. Cleaned it up somewhat. Even though it's wavy and half of it's missing, the line of the case can now be appreciated. That's better. Worse, but better. Continued along the top of the wing. Doctor Bondo been hard at work. The best word I can use for this comes from geology; strata. Got this far and ran out of time. Good thing too, my poor angle grinder was getting too hot to hold. I can already see why it was slathered in Bondo though. Given the last of the purple and mauve paint, the gloss gives a good indication of what's going on with the panel. Someone done ran out of skill and put the car sideways into a pole, by looks of it. I have more fun* ahead with hammers. Still, the car is about 15 lbs lighter than it was when I started today... Phil I am really sorry to see the latest updte. My C10 was so damaged under the red shiny paint. The rear load bed has 1/4” of filler in places and I fer for the day I expose that. Bedsides are really costly, so it will be hands on fixing.
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Jun 30, 2021 14:12:12 GMT
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I am really sorry to see the latest updte. My C10 was so damaged under the red shiny paint. The rear load bed has 1/4” of filler in places and I fer for the day I expose that. Bedsides are really costly, so it will be hands on fixing. 'tis the American way. I intend on getting replacement lower quarters so part of that will be replaced; the upper section is just going to be hours of hammers to attempt to put back into shape. Woo fun.
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Jun 30, 2021 14:45:22 GMT
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Phil , do you think it might be worth just getting it all sandblasted , and save on time and discs ? If I were to be doing it all at once, maybe. However, this is a slow manual process which suits me just fine. I can do it bit by bit in the evenings and weekends and not worry about the rest of the car. Ideally I'd get it acid dipped but I don't think the car's financially worth it. Phil
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Jun 30, 2021 20:35:41 GMT
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geology, or carchaeology
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More hammers. Getting the general profile back correct. Yet more to do but again ran out of time today. Phil
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Must be hard leaning over that wing to get a dolly on the back of it!
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Must be hard leaning over that wing to get a dolly on the back of it! It's actually easier than I thought. The hardest bit so far has been getting in the corners above and to the side of the lights.
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What you spent Friday night doing? I went had Mexican for dinner then decided it would be good to start heating and scraping all the tar underseal off the inside of the wing so the profile is visible to beat on. It was already 28 degrees in the garage, adding a 1.5kW heat gun didn't help. I got that far and was so warm I gave up. I need a smaller scraper to get into the nadir of the swage. Phil
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Half an hour with hammers. Had a go at getting the overall profile correct. The mean shape is about correct, I just need to massage the wrinkles flat now. Phil
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your'e really good with those hammers phil.
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your'e really good with those hammers phil. No, no I am not. I'm learning and it's a difficult skill. I do need a couple different hammers with different faces, though. Phil
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A hot 30 minutes in the garage again. Wooden block with old sandpaper wrapped around to highlight the high points. I think that's it for that. Bloody hard work, and I don't like this dolly much. I may try to bring the lows up a touch but next up is take the rest of the filler out and see what is hiding under there... Phil
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Have you tried a slap stick? There's a skill to using them but you gotta start somewhere.
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Have you tried a slap stick? There's a skill to using them but you gotta start somewhere. I have not. I'm learning this as I go. I hate bodywork, in truth. It's hot and difficult and I have a great deal of respect for people who can make shiny and pretty cars. I guess the big question is how straight it needs to be before adding body filler. My understanding is "as straight as possible".
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Last Edit: Jul 6, 2021 1:35:52 GMT by PhilA
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When I have done similar repairs I have found you can go too far and it then starts to oil can, you then need to start shrinking metal if you can get it within a 2 or 3 mm I would then go to filler over an epoxy primer.
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When I have done similar repairs I have found you can go too far and it then starts to oil can, you then need to start shrinking metal if you can get it within a 2 or 3 mm I would then go to filler over an epoxy primer. I'm in that ballpark easily and the panel is still stable. I might prime it, drop some filler in and see what I can do with it then. Should just end up with a few small pools of filler in the dimples. Phil
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When I have done similar repairs I have found you can go too far and it then starts to oil can, you then need to start shrinking metal if you can get it within a 2 or 3 mm I would then go to filler over an epoxy primer. I'm in that ballpark easily and the panel is still stable. I might prime it, drop some filler in and see what I can do with it then. Should just end up with a few small pools of filler in the dimples. Phil I completely agree with this, while some people can work wonders with metal i've found that if you can get it reasonably straight and use a light skim of filler then its fine, clearly you don't want huge depths of it but also you don't want to have it popping in and out like an oil can (something I had when doing the roof on my jag).
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Apr 17, 2022 19:14:35 GMT
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Work continues. Extracting the fury from under the remains of the garage. 28C, heat index 32, blazing sun. Mad dogs and Englishmen. That's not as good as I had hoped for. My workbench is pushed hard up against the door and wing. Roof isn't as bad as I had feared though. Inconvenient place, however. Phil
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Apr 17, 2022 19:22:05 GMT
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Ah curse word, thats not good.... I have your car's younger sibling, also burried in a garage, but in a different way...
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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