Re: Henry's 55 Constellation
Posted by Cli55er On 2013/7/29 16:18:36
had a week off from work and me and the wife worked hard on cleaning up stuff and patching and filling and sweating!
finished the rocker....just need to scuff the paint up to match the rest of the patina.
ground it down...filled it with metal weld epoxy...then sanded that down flat and painted.
took heavy duty wire brush on my angle grinder to the whole floor getting up all the loose rubber material. the good thing about it it took out all the rot and revealed the extent of the damage.
the little holes i just filled with metal weld epoxy which will get covered in linseed and then herculiner...not gonna leak in a 100 years i bet.
the really bad holes i had to make some patchs for and weld in. i sprayed it all with rust converter first. the little curved fake body mount i took a piece of metal and banged the poo outa it till filled the curve and then welded it in. i'll metal epoxy fill it soon.
this is all under carpet or under car so idgas what it looks like....as long as it doesn't leak water.
instead of buying a floorpan from C2C for 60 bucks for the passenger's side i just went to lowes and bought some sheet metal and cut it to fit...don't care about the little indents and stuff...it'll function fine as is and its way more solid then what was there when i push on it.
still gotta fill up the little holes, and that curved part where the option heater would go. don't plan on having one of those anyways.
this will all get a good linseeding when i'm done and then some herculiner to finish it out. then carpet.
the trunk had some huge jagged man made hole in it...no idea what that is about....put i'll fix that.
the spare tire well was dented up and has some bad rot...plan on welding in a new bottome piece for that using the old to curve the new metal first.
i also took the old rocker and marked the holes for the trim....center punched them and drilled them out. perfectly good.
its getting there.
Hank
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finished the rocker....just need to scuff the paint up to match the rest of the patina.
ground it down...filled it with metal weld epoxy...then sanded that down flat and painted.
took heavy duty wire brush on my angle grinder to the whole floor getting up all the loose rubber material. the good thing about it it took out all the rot and revealed the extent of the damage.
the little holes i just filled with metal weld epoxy which will get covered in linseed and then herculiner...not gonna leak in a 100 years i bet.
the really bad holes i had to make some patchs for and weld in. i sprayed it all with rust converter first. the little curved fake body mount i took a piece of metal and banged the poo outa it till filled the curve and then welded it in. i'll metal epoxy fill it soon.
this is all under carpet or under car so idgas what it looks like....as long as it doesn't leak water.
instead of buying a floorpan from C2C for 60 bucks for the passenger's side i just went to lowes and bought some sheet metal and cut it to fit...don't care about the little indents and stuff...it'll function fine as is and its way more solid then what was there when i push on it.
still gotta fill up the little holes, and that curved part where the option heater would go. don't plan on having one of those anyways.
this will all get a good linseeding when i'm done and then some herculiner to finish it out. then carpet.
the trunk had some huge jagged man made hole in it...no idea what that is about....put i'll fix that.
the spare tire well was dented up and has some bad rot...plan on welding in a new bottome piece for that using the old to curve the new metal first.
i also took the old rocker and marked the holes for the trim....center punched them and drilled them out. perfectly good.
its getting there.
Hank
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