Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

Originally Posted by Dinty

Well it was certainly hot out in the direct sunlight today, my wife tells me it's only 26c, it felt like 40. My fingers are sore from sanding back the spray putty I applied a couple of days ago, the bulkhead looks like it has a heat rash LOL
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Na mate, as a painter and decorator by trade I can tell you that the traces of colour you're seeing combined with sore fingers = blood & sweat. Good work

Well my itchy trigger finger got the better of me this afternoon, had some items to be picked up in Newcastle off we went, it was around 1200hrs so we had lunch @ 'Rocksalt' very nice I may say, I now have the aluminium to remake the seatbox mounting panel that is fixed to the transome panel, but I will have to wait until I can we can use the panbrake folder where my mate works.
My itchy finger got the brain going and I decided I would paint the tailgate and a few other other items, a short while later I had masked up and painted the outside of the t/gate, but Murphy's law kicked in 2 little bugs landed and made 2 huge ? marks damn and blast them to hell, they were quickly picked off but they had left their mark, I quickly moved the T/gate inside the house actually sitting on the breakfast bar swmbo ATM is fine with it
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it looks like I had missed a section but it is light coming under that panel, but after seeing it I checked and I have missed a few small areas under the metal hooks for the canopy, so it will have to be re-sprayed in a few days time
I still had plenty of paint left so out with 2 rims (the other 2 have the bonnet frame etc sitting on them), it didn't take long to coat them in Deep Bronze Green either
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...psa81ca5bc.jpg
still paint left over, a quick light sand on the instrument panel and a coat of DBG
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...psffadd94a.jpg
yes it looks a different colour but it isn't, still some paint left, so the underside of the steel floor section off the B/head received a coat on the underside, no image of that as camera battery died anyway that has been my day, cheers Dennis

Lovely morning here, up early and walked 5k's then got stuck into applying more DBG to rims. The items stayed in the house overnight much to my surprise swmbo never even mentioned them, two of them are still there!!. on the table!!.
After dusting off the rims and mixing DBG they were sprayed and they look the part too
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I wanted to use up the paint, so I collected the floor panel assembly, up ended it, wiped it down & over with thinners, a quick coat of etch primer, it dries very fast, then applied DBG to it
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps45043a19.jpg
yes I know Land Rovers were not painted on the underside, but I want this to last long after I'm gone, anyway I'm sure swmbo will have fun spending the loot when she sells them all, cheers Dennis

Another productive afternoon with my mate Gordon, we managed to fold up the panel that attaches to the transome and cut new panels for the door tops
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps8a1dda11.jpg
that's Sophie (Daredevil Dog) checking out the work LOL, I suppose tomorrow I will mark and cut out the holes for the seat frames to pass through and a multitude of other holes etc, anyway great way to finish off the day, cheers Dennis
ps here is Sophie I forgot to add the image
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It;s morning tea time, I've been on the job since before 0800 so I figured I could have a break and give my lower back a break as well. I purchased this new (well new to me) filler, some of the panels have deep gouges in them and not wanting to use body filler I thought I would give this a try
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps30853698.jpg
it's called 'Hot Shot' easy to apply, using a flexible plastic spatula, I haven't tried sanding it as yet as I got stuck into marking out the rectangular holes x 6 for the seat base frame to pass through the panel
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps37bd34d3.jpg
with them all marked out as per the original, I needed to find something to suit the radius, to me it looked the same as some of the 2BA washers and I was correct, radius is the same
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...psb5121404.jpg
after about 30 minutes of drilling etc and some filing it now looks like this
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps44672de9.jpg
thankfully no one will see the scribed lines as the seatbox bolts butt up to it, I tend to be a bit heavy handed with the scribing tool, but I think a quick hit with any of my orbital sanders will knock them down, anyway break over, cheers Dennis

I'm finished for the day now as we have a dinner date in Maitland some things just seem to get in the way of a good time, anyway the couple of jobs I had on the go have been almost completed, here is the panel with 6 x rectangular holes cut in, and the edges angled,
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps0f868e8b.jpg
I think I have got the radius of the corners almost right
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps77ed66be.jpg
just a little more filing before I clean all edges up, I offered the panel up to the seat box and clamped it in place, quite a few holes have to be located and drilled to mount the seat backs and bolt the seatbox to this panel after it has been riveted into place
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...psea6aa4d4.jpg
and just to help or complicate things I clamped up the old transome panel to check everything in place before commiting to drill any holes
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...psc7d31505.jpg
The middle cover off the seatbox that I filled with 'Hot Shot' has been sanded and etch primed, looks good, anyway cheers Dennis

Trial fit of this panel against the transome, shows that it still needs to be relieved along the sides

the transome has approx a 2mm belly in it, but drops to just 3mm when the extra panel is in place, something is being pushed anyway cheers Dennis

Way too warm to be working on the tub in the direct sunlight, what with the heat and reflected light off bright aluminium sheeting!, so I decided I would apply some more blade putty to areas on the bulkhead, but work under cover in the carport,

not too much hardener needed on a day like today, tomorrow is going to be hotter again, anyway here's how it finished up this evening @1845hrs

anyway cheers Dennis