by "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
Published 11/28/2017 at 09:21
by "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
Published 11/28/2017 at 09:21
Tags: Galaxie
STARS: 7
1. I have been repairing the seal retainer edge around the trunk of the Galaxie. Actually, I finished laying in new metal last night, so only have some touch-up welding/grinding and sealing/repainting to do. I also need to repair some holes in the trunk floor.
I will post pics once I have it painted and spiffy.
2: I have a new job, starting Monday. In
the automotive industry
, even. Robot programming and some engineering oversight tasks.
"random001" (random001)
11/28/2017 at 09:27, STARS: 0
Nice! On both, but especially on the new job!
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/28/2017 at 09:31, STARS: 2
I’m not getting that much per hour to start (in the temp phase of the temp-to-hire) but I will have more hours - which will also be more regular and enable me to schedule better. It’s about 25 minutes away (don’t even have to move). It’s also less gymnastics involved mentally speaking, so I may have more “brain” left at the end of the day for projects, which has typically been the problem.
Downside: probably a bit less Oppo, and via phone.
"random001" (random001)
11/28/2017 at 09:43, STARS: 0
But at least it sounds interesting!
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
11/28/2017 at 09:43, STARS: 0
It looks good in green.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 09:50, STARS: 0
No more air boxes for you! Congratulations.
That rust deal on the Galaxie is an ambitious project. Keep us posted.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/28/2017 at 09:56, STARS: 0
Rust repair on the Galaxie pales in comparison to my ongoing project to repair or replace nearly every panel on a ‘63 Ranchero. Got it with holes in the bed, holes in the tailgate, holes in the quarters, holes in the roof, a hole in the hood, and nearly no floors.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/28/2017 at 09:58, STARS: 2
Yeah, I have no idea why my phone decided that sodium outside light + fluorescent inside light + gold Champagne paint = GREEEEEEN. Nuh.
You never go Full Kermit.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 10:51, STARS: 0
(There’s a joke about a hole in your head to be made here, but I’ll refrain...)
What are you using for a welder?
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/28/2017 at 11:02, STARS: 0
Mostly an old Millermatic Challenger 172. Four voltage settings only and a kind of dodgy wire speed control. I’ve got it loaded with .024 solid wire and using CO2/Argon mix. I also have used a spot welder from the early 70s(?) for some work and I have a 1980s industrial Spoolmate 2/Spoolmatic rig for aluminum work.
The Spoolmatic is actually way more versatile than the Challenger in terms of voltage - 12 settings! - but is very bulky for trying to work around bodywork and the wire feed is a little fiddly.
I can’t recall what I used for the heavy plate for the motor mount brackets... might have been the Challenger 172 with .030 wire, might have been the stick unit.
"JR1" (type35bugatti)
11/28/2017 at 11:20, STARS: 0
Congrats on the job! And keep up the headway with the Galaxie. Saving an old car from the grave is always a good thing!
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 11:22, STARS: 0
I have a welder that a guy gave me that uses a spool and inert gas, but I think it needs work and I don’t know enough to figure out what might be wrong with it.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/28/2017 at 11:28, STARS: 0
Could have anything wrong from electrics to mechanicals (wire motor, wire sleeve, etc.), but as long as it’s not super-modern with electronic voltage control, the faults are fairly simple to address. Or at least diagnose enough to know if it’s worth keeping.
You can get a sense of what’s working and isn’t by simply hooking it up and pressing the trigger. You won’t need wire or gas for that. An audible “clunk” will tell you that the high-amperage contactor is operating, and the motor at the wire feed turning will tell you that the wire feed is operating. If absolutely nothing happens when you pull the trigger on the torch, but the box is humming - control button/wire problem, most likely.
There are other potential gremlins, but it’s good to start with the basics.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/28/2017 at 11:35, STARS: 0
The Galaxie is an odd mix of survivor, odd kinds of neglect, and a schizophrenic restoration maybe twenty years ago or more. Example: the dashboard was repainted with the new paint, which is thorough, but preparation wasn’t that good so it’s peeling at the vent/speaker hole, and they seem to have reused(?) original windshield seal and/or rear window seal in the repaint. The flocked rear deck panel (cardboard) got no attention at all.
I’m working toward the Lincoln, I swear. One bonus of the job is that it should financially and mentally enable the Lincoln to happen sooner - since the hangup mostly has to do with not having the roof up over the workspace.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
11/28/2017 at 11:37, STARS: 0
I have a neighbor who welds for a living. Maybe he would be willing to look at it with me.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/28/2017 at 11:41, STARS: 1
Not a bad idea. It should be fairly straightforward to figure out if it will
chooch
.
"JR1" (type35bugatti)
11/28/2017 at 11:46, STARS: 0
Weird? The restoration or repairs must have been done to a budget because it sounds like they missed a few steps. Too bad the prep on the dashboard was lacking because that would have been one less step for you.
And let me put it this way about the Lincoln. You are further along on that thing that I would have been at this point.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/28/2017 at 12:02, STARS: 0
The dedicated half-assing has left me kind of a quandary: do I pull the windshield, mask off the dash carefully, bag the seats, and repaint everything that’s Champagne after removing the door cards? And do I do that before replacing the beltline seals and the carpet?
I’ve been trying to hold off on full body repaint until things to cause issues with the body are dealt with - a bad sheet metal repair on the rear left that I’m going to be smoothing out, some rust damage on the trunk lid from misalignment contact - but some things may need to get addressed sooner and may have to come apart twice. Ugh.
The worst is that all the aluminum trim has to come off for a full body repaint, if it’s done properly. ALL of it. I’m trying to come up with a way that I can do things as more like a respray, but the paint being subtly off in color from what it’s supposed to be and all the little boo-boos make that a challenge.
"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
11/28/2017 at 12:08, STARS: 0
That first pic makes it look like Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton are gonna come take it.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/28/2017 at 12:17, STARS: 0
It was a son of a bitch to get that trunk lid off with no help, let me tell you.
Also, it does look a shitton like the ‘64 Malibu in Repo Man, so you might be onto something.
"JR1" (type35bugatti)
11/29/2017 at 08:35, STARS: 0
I would say you should probably just pull the windshield and get it over with so it isn’t a problem at a later date. That is unfortunate you will have to maybe paint the vehicle twice. Maybe you can make it a benefit somehow by adding a cool base layer before applying the finishing layer (kinda like how candy apple red is really gold painted under red).