81 BJ42 - I have to bring it home and pass inspection

[lowenbrau]

i used Consolidated for years, can't beat the price and you get to control the quality.
down here we don't have a rent a blaster ... there is portable units but they come with a guy that does the work.

although the cost is $90/hr which isn't bad at all.

I like to use Consolidated and I, too remember paying $60/hr there. It is really nice to just walk away from the mess. Some of the mobile guys offer different services that you can't get at the big industrial places though. Different abrasives (walnut shells and even dry ice chips) for more delicate work. If you use dry ice the only clean-up is whatever you were removing (paint and rust scale)

 

[Awl_TEQ]

I'm still working on it. After the last update I sealed up all the joints and even ran some over all the welds I made.

 

[Awl_TEQ]

Then I installed the rust traps, er, support brackets. I could have fabbed something that was less of a water trap but I wanted original look so I bought these from CCOT. I used a floor jack and length of pipe as well as vise grips until I got them into position and tacked. The epoxy primer is easy enough to weld through but that sealer is a real pain. Poppin and fartin and drooling all over. but they're in. Also did the seat anchors as you can see.

 

[Awl_TEQ]

I also made progress on the quarters. A skim of bodo, sanded flat, filled any defects.





cleaned up the inside too. I didn't take pictures but I put the roll bar back in to mark the hole locations before taking it out again. Drilling them out was a challenge. Some of the holes had to go through the welds I made for the supports and were real hard to get through. Also the outboard holes are too close to the side wall to drill effectively. Then I put the roll bar back in and bolted it in place so I could weld the nuts in. FYI - the seatbelts are actually SAE 7/16" fine thread and the other three on each landing pad are M10. Several hours in that whole process.

 

[Awl_TEQ]

Sand, fill, repeat.

Flat enough. I have two coats of filler on now. I will block it once more and shoot color.

I will have color on by end of Thursday because Friday I'm out of town for week and a half.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Sand, fill, repeat.

Flat enough. I have two coats of filler on now. I will block it once more and shoot color.

I will have color on by end of Thursday because Friday I'm out of town for week and a half.

Ahhhh body work, everyone is hot for the sheet metal work then the crowd goes quiet during the time consuming block sanding....

I like it all and even like getting in the booth and spraying the colour...

Looks real good

Rob

 

[crushers]

me, i HATE the feather fill and sanding, right up there with 'E' controlled diesels.
i sub that out to those that enjoy that kind of work.

 

[45Kevin]

Kevin, if you want to borrow my HVLP to spray colour on that thing let me know.

It works very well and is easy clean to clean up.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

I think the number one mistake rookie body guys make, they do not wash with final wipe and rush the high build primer sanding. We would spray the lower quality primer which shrinks alot over a 24hr period.

They would spray shortly after and have paint issues...

Now if you shoot PPG 300bucks a gallon, you can sand it in less than a hour and there will be no shrinkage, it contains high build and eching primer combined...

Rob

 

[Awl_TEQ]

Ahhhh body work, everyone is hot for the sheet metal work then the crowd goes quiet during the time consuming block sanding....

Yeah, I noticed that too...

 

[Awl_TEQ]

Kevin, if you want to borrow my HVLP to spray colour on that thing let me know.

It works very well and is easy clean to clean up.

I appreciate the offer but I have a decent primer gun and after Thursday's issues I believe I will buy a good gun. I'll get enough use out of it to justify the expense I think.

 

[Awl_TEQ]

I think the number one mistake rookie body guys make, they do not wash with final wipe and rush the high build primer sanding. We would spray the lower quality primer which shrinks alot over a 24hr period.

They would spray shortly after and have paint issues...

Now if you shoot PPG 300bucks a gallon, you can sand it in less than a hour and there will be no shrinkage, it contains high build and eching primer combined...

Rob

Thank you for the advice. I am a novice when it comes to paint. I have the basic steps down pretty good and I have painted a couple of motorcycles with good results. I just take my time and let my OCD run rampant.


I alluded to issues last Thursday. I had decided to seal and shoot color Thursday evening but had trouble getting a nice smooth coat on with my gun. I have a 1.5 gun that is well built but with the primer mixed 4:1:2 for sealer its so thin I think I need something smaller. I was rushing and made a couple of runs and had trouble with access. I had put a regulator right on the gun which made it too long without a swivel on the air supply. Reaching in the side doors and rear doors was awkward.

I was in a hurry and it just wasn't comfortable so I shut her down after a thin coat of sealer.

Reason for the rush is we flew out of town Friday evening. I'm in Victoria again. This time with the family. Monday we board a Disney ship in Vancouver bound for LA by way of San Fran.

Saw this while beach-combing

 

[ForealBoreal]

Wittys!

 

[Awl_TEQ]

Yup!!

 

[ForealBoreal]

Had a few trips to the bluffs for my royal roads field trips.

 

[Chamba]

Thanks for the tip on your new thread Kevin.

Reading through your threads gives me a warm feeling and makes my heart go pity-pat... My wife's not even jealous, she just rolls her eyes when she sees that I am on Mud again. Sheilas... they just can't understand - no Y chromosome, so it's not their fault.

I had to add from earlier in your thread: After living in Australia for seven years, I am VERY HAPPY to be back in the US. I love the people in Australia, but the cost of living, the endless rules, laws, cameras and regulations and the heat wore me down; give me the North American West any day, even with our booming population.

I have spent a lot of time in New Zealand and really love it there. However, it is more expensive than even Australia and they have most of the same silly nanny-state rules which make Australia such an Orwellian place to be.

Overall, Australia will allways be a part of me and I am proud to be Australian and American, but it is a far better place to retire than to live in as a middle-aged bloke. All of the rules, etc. would be great when one is 70 or 75, but when one is 40-ish, it just gets old and tiresome. When we retire, my wife and I will definately go back and use their health system and pension. I'll even ring one of the many, many dob-in lines (toll free tattle tale phone numbers for everything from illegal watering to whether or not your neighbour's car is unregistered) to tell the coppers that someone is hooning by on a bicycle without a helmet, just to fit in.

I felt like I needed to read a rule book every morning when I got up to make sure I did not get a ticket: bike helmet? check. Flouro vest? Check. Safety gear? Check. Elbow safely inside car window? Check. Number plate clean so cameras can see me? Check. All appropriate paperwork handy? Check. The list went on and on.

OK, rant off. Now to sit back and read what the Aussies (most of whom go out of Australia for holidays... ever wonder why that is?)say...

Josh

 

[Awl_TEQ]

So yer back eh?

Tell me the LX followed you?

 

[Chamba]

So yer back eh?

Tell me the LX followed you?

Yessir, she's here. Along with my family, my BMW motorbike and a 40' container worth of household goods. I'm still driving around on my South Australian plates though.... I'll have to do something about that one of these days.

I still have your B engine mounts, but don't yet have a 13bt to put under the bonnet. Now that I don't have to have a compliance inspection done for every little thing I do, I have big plans.

Josh

 

[Gusb]

Really nice work knocking out those patches.

 

[merbesfield]

Look into the DKups system for you sprayer. I have experienced the same issues spraying small tight areas as well as anything upside down, difficult at best. Especially for my novice talents.

http://www.spraygunworld.com/Information2/DKups/Dcups.html