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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Oooooo Shiny!

After about 10 hours of sanding and 6 hours of painting with a 2" brush, this is the result:






The exterior side of the rear wheel wells and the floor bottom are still unpainted.  I will turn it bottoms-up this week to finish it off, but the bulk of the tricky work is done.  The rust encapsulation paint is brush-on only: hard to get into some of those tight spaces, but the finish is very hard and smooth.  This coat is only a primer, and there is a fair bit of body filler work to be done.  I have decided to only use filler where there are still pinholes in the metal or the finished chassis will be exposed to view, but to let her retain her "battle scars" under her clothing.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Rust-B-Gone

Work is definitely cutting into my car time lately!

Last weekend was 99* and 55% humidity, which works out to a heat index of something like 120.5*.  All the same, I was able to work in the shop: getting a little painting done on some interior components like seat rails, heater fan shroud, door hinges, emergency brake handle, etc.  Also finished painting most of the brake components with the high temp caliper paint.

Today was a few degrees cooler and the first clear day in a week, so I took the oportunity to wire brush the car and remove the last of the old seam sealer.  After a quick vacuum, the rust killer went on and -voila'- no more rust!

My son took the before photos, and helped with the wire brushing and rust treatment.  The frame had been out in the rain for a week, so it had picked up a light haze of rust everywhere.  However, the wire-brushing had to be done anyway to remove weld splatter, paint and other "bits" not removed by the sandblasting - so the exposure to the elements did not add any additional work to the process.


Everything is now a nice hard coat of grey or black.  A light sanding, and it will be ready for paint: