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I will test out another color, but blue worked good! Lol
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Been treating the rust with this stuff. What is everyone else using? I have a POR 15 kit that I will use later after all the metal work is done. Additionally, Hot sauce is lethal to transformers.
WarDamnEagle
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Corroseal. No fumes.
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Tomorrow - Finally a warm enough day, will move the 55 away from the lift and into the front of the Shop. Have other stuff that needs to be able to fly (on the lift) - high to repair. It seems like there is always 200 million things to do and never get caught up. I have used the check box-task list for years while I active duty Air Force. As a retiree, I still use that each morning to try and get something accomplished. I am really task orientated person and have to get something done.
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Made contact with a Fellow Ih8mud member, local to my area in Fort Walton Beach, Floriduh. Has 2 FJ55's one parts and one good one. Will meet with him in 2 months when he gets back. Headed to Brimgham on Thursday. UAB clinic will do there magic and insert a ballon into my throat and expand it. Hopefully the procedure is first thing in the morning. It does help with swallowing for a little while, being a tongue cancer survivor this was that natural progression to have difficulty in swallowing. Since they nuked my throat during radiation treatment. Its all scar tissue. Hopefully we will make it to the Twisted Kilt for dinner on Thursday night.
Wish you luck! Thoughts are with you.
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The front valance holes are welded up. Sorry no pictures. Started on the drivers door roof structure, this is the inner channel. Ran out of gas argon/co …
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Made a wood buck and screwed the panel to it. Then grabbed the torch and slowly formed it over. It’s larger than I needed. Still have another bend and then trim
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Did relief cuts to make the 90 — more trimming
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Procedure was a success. They had some kinda of problem in the OR. So I was 4hrs behind getting into my procedure. Steve was my driver for the ride home, silly rules on driving after having drugs in your system. 100 series just purred down the miles while we talked the whole way up and back. Great trip.
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Got home and this was waiting for me. Under coat gun and extended nozzles. Gonna run some of that under coat stuff down the cavity’s and underside. From what saw on you tube, homemade stuff is just oil / grease tube / boiled linseed oil/ and a scented candle/ then thin the mix with diesel or whatever. Everyone is pretty clear that it is better to spray warm so it flows out the gun better. Will report when I try that. Lastly, Amazon prime series the “Expanse” is a recommendation for watching. The show only covered the first 4 or 5 books, the series ended and in the books there is a 100-160 year gap or fast forward to pick up the saga again. So far the book is pretty spot on for the show. With a little more depth of characters.
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For the DIY
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Still hammering away at this side - lots of parts in this area. The lower right windshield curve was completely gone. Started working my way across the bottom windshield lip filling in the holes from the spot welds. Put down a coat of POR 15 inside this channel and over some of the exposed metal that will be covered later. That front pan that was rusted out was POR15 also. Will just grind off whatever I need to weld other panel sections.
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Don’t let the butter win! Used the plasma torch on a sliding buck to slice out one side for the 1in U channel for the back window. I don't have a sheet metal brake big enough to make the channel. This worked out really well. Need to do some small clean up on it.
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Used this blade for the last week, still going strong! Definitely worth it (edit this is a new blade not a used one)
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Yay ! Back to making hot metal! This part is 2.5inches wide. The factory is about 1.5in wide and another inch of drip rail. Lots of welding to do…. (Edit lots of grinding to do)
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Top right corner was rotten, working my way around. Spent some time on clean up today and mounted another air hose reel. I was tripping over the one air hose. Fixed the leaking fittings on the regulator. Small progress is still moving the chains towards the goal line.
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Clicking away at this … lost my copper spoon for filling the Drill holes somehow somewhere in the shop.
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Working on filling the drill holes from the spot welds .. more love from the grinder
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Kinda sick of working on the front. Switched it up to the rear upper section. Plasma torched the rusted metal away and drilled the spot welds. I will be spot welding from the inside cargo out so the holes are good. Sams club - brisket! Yummy!
