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Post by harvey on Sept 5, 2007 0:33:17 GMT
Ian you are not hanging about, no doubt most of the time was taken stripping the many layers of paint from the roof you bought from that dodgy character in the west of Scotland ;D ;D
I stripped back a door from the same vehicle that the roof came from and took me ages, 11 layers if my memory is correct.
Keep up the good work
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Post by Ian2TG on Sept 5, 2007 9:31:48 GMT
;D haha, yeah i actually ran out of paint stripper on the roof, which is why it has that, er... "textured effect" let me see, i think there was 6, plus a little bit of filler in places guess i'll crack on with the sander!
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Post by Uncle Bob on Sept 9, 2007 13:46:34 GMT
Its great to see some hard-core restoration going on
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Post by Ian2TG on Sept 10, 2007 8:49:20 GMT
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Post by fragglepoop on Sept 12, 2007 1:15:59 GMT
nice job... very impressed for a first roof skin effort
if your struggling with the plug welds its best to turn up the power on your mig a notch more than you would normally weld that thickness of metal. if it burns holes through the under panel you can get a small bar of copper and clamp it to the under side of each weld to stop it melting through..
i always use weld through primer on the inside of the welded seams to prevent it rusting out again,, well worth it in the long run as bare metal inside seams is bad news once the moisture gets in.. its available at halfords if you can't get it at a decent paint shop. if youve already welded it on just make sure you seal every joint with proper polyurethane seam sealer, upol tiger seal is good stuff and easy to get a hold of at paint shops. cheap brushable stuff in tins shrinks and is pants.
if your filling the pillars with plastic filler ( lead is hard work and expensive if you don't already have the gear, then i'd problly seam weld the joins under the filler just to stop moisture getting into the filler as its like a sponge and will rust and bubble really soon if it gets damp. but always be really careful seam welding stuff and use an air line to cool it as you go or just take lots of time if you don't.
hope it all goes well!!
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Post by fragglepoop on Sept 12, 2007 1:20:38 GMT
now that i think on it you can get metal content plastic filler that doesnt absorb water for filling over seams.. i think its called upol D or something or their is another make called classic metal loading filler or some such thing.. problly a better bet if your not to confident with a welder..
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Post by Ian2TG on Sept 27, 2007 21:24:09 GMT
thanks fragglepoop, it's all done, and i pretty much did everything you said... great minds eh? ;D one of my neighbours used to be a professional welder, and he said that the welds looked good, got a tiny bit of warping, but that was actually where i'd put in some patch panels i reckon once all the welds have been ground down i'll need to crack the mig out again and fill some bits but i'm really happy so far and i sold the full webastard sunroof on ebay for £160 - result!
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