"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo)
04/14/2016 at 00:15 • Filed to: None
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"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo)
04/14/2016 at 00:15 • Filed to: None | 2
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Went over to Larry’s place to tinker on the 27 chev, he sent me home with two groovy embroidered Studebaker patches, and a 1940's tin lunchbox. Thought yous guys might be into that sort of thing. Also, I’ve been recruited by the the little bodyshop of horrors for rust work, just the resto projects just cutting, fitting fabbing, welding. Don’t have to do the mud work or work on the regular gross crashed minivans and taxis, it’s a sweet gig, in my spare time, and comes with keys to the shop. First up is a mercury pickup, giving me an excuse to learn the english wheel I bought and only messed with for an hour.
This will be my patient. gotta get in some floors to keep it square, then chop, hammer weld and lead. Wish I had the motivation to do this at home, since I’ve acquired most of a complete body shop over the last decade or so.
crowmolly
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
04/14/2016 at 07:39 |
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Cool stuff!
It’s not the Harbor Freight English wheel, is it?
Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
04/14/2016 at 08:44 |
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‘65/66 Merc? I’m doing a 66 F100 right now that honestly has the cleanest 50 year old metal I think I’ve ever seen. Then again, it was well protected by a half dozen paint jobs...
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Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
> Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever
04/14/2016 at 09:40 |
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Yeah, but it’s one of those one’s where you could’ve started with a better one, but anything can be fixed. You familiar with the small princess auto english wheel? I suspect it’s not very good, but just always wanted one.
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Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
> crowmolly
04/14/2016 at 09:42 |
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Princess Auto, so I suspect it’s the same one.
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Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
04/14/2016 at 10:18 |
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We were lucky on the F100, no doubt about it. Had been redone a few times, but no seamsealer replacement on the last go around (the poor bedside was weeping rust water down itself). Definitely know the “could’ve started with a better one” story lol. The 70 Nova in the background is kind of a basket case, it has a clapboard siding style patch job in the trunk floor (equally hideous and impressive), and there’s galvanized stovepipe (won’t rust!) split open and riveted onto the quarter hiding under a half inch of filler. Also had a 63 Impala we just finished that had so much expanding foam filling rustholes in the quarter/rocker/wheelhouses I think the damn thing would’ve floated.
English wheel will probably be our next purchase (awaiting a blasting cabinet that’s going to be put to very good use), and that Princess model looks very affordable. One review said it needs a bit of reinforcement to prevent flexing (presumably the arm holding the upper wheel), but that’s nothing some creative fab/welding won’t fix, given it’s entry price point. Really could’ve used the wheel remaking a firewall on the ‘56 Dodge cab (I’d rather pull my fingernails out than source parts for that damned thing, they don’t exist; Ford/Chevy pickups you can nearly build from scratch out of a catalog) next to the F100, but we got a pretty good workout beating it into submission.
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Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
> Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever
04/14/2016 at 10:26 |
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yeah, looks like I need to shim the bottom die, or just to de-embiggen the tube so it won’t wobbble, can work fairly fast with the shrinker/stretcher, so I go there first.