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I tryed annealing them , also tryed heating them & droping them inthe hole while still hot nothing worked . I find the claws on the speed nuts hold them nice & tight . I now buy my rivets from a bolt co here in Brisbane. Maybe when i finish the mini i'am building i will pull the hard rivets out & fit some of the new ones.
Well after a gruelling day in aged care, I only had approx 1 hour to play with, so I set about removing the alloy panels from the door tops, knock the rivet ends off with a very sharp chisel and punch the heads out, it didn't take long and this was the result
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a quick application on a an area of approx 7" square with paint stripper and it didn't take long to have one side devoid of paint, turn it over to attack the side with 5 layers of paint, this is where I had to call it a day (or rather an hour LOL)
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well that was my hour this afternoon, cheers Dennis:angel:
ps more of the same tomorrow arvo, hopefully I'm home on time:(,,.
A day of aged care puts anew shine on stripping paint.... Like meditation ......... I've had days in that Feild that'd take 53 hrs strait stripping to relieve .... Perhaps I need a stripper pole;)
On a slightly more serious note what's you're strippers name??, I'm up 4 the same job in the near future
The paint stripper is a Bunning's brand "Diggers", it works well, as usual wash panels down throughly after using, I have not in 13 years had any issues with paint peeling etc after using stripper.
A little more done this afternoon, I finished stripping the alloy panel off the door top (RHS) and I also finished sanding the RHS door skin on both sides
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it had a few minor blemishes which were up to 2mm deep, using the flat dolly and soft (wooden) hammer etc I have managed to reduce them to under .5mm, so not much spray putty will be needed, anyway cheers Dennis:angel:
ps I always manage to do something to my projects everyday, that way it just seems to flow on easily,,.:)
Ahhh I read the diggers stripper earlier but thought it was " digger" the member and a noxious back yard brew lmao fool that I am... Thanks mark
The best part of the day was spent removing rivets from the LHS door, some were very stubborn:(. The layers of paint on panels on this Land Rover is nothing sort of amazing/ridiculous, 2 applications of stripper to get it down to this level, and look how the paint rolls off
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while the paint stripper is doing what it does best, I had made a phone call to a local galvanizer, they advised me that all steel had to be free of paint etc :o:(, more work !!, so I made a start on the RHS door frame, the gal under the paint looks great, but I'm still going to have it redone at this stage
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moving right along, I had run out of stripper, that's the first 4 lts, off to the local shop to buy some more and keep going
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after I had removed all the paint from the outside of the door skin, I pressure washed it to neutralise any stripper left over, allow to dry in the sun and 40 minutes later it looked like this (and still does LOL)
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my Metabo orbital sander makes short work of any stubborn paint etc, I still have about 100 disc's left over from my last project 113-372, anyway that was my day, only a short day tomorrow (afternoon shift), but it will be full day on Sunday;), cheers Dennis:angel:
ps some of the minor blemishes on this panel hopefully will be removed to make a nice smooth panel,,.
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Originally Posted by mfc
But if you are after DIGGER STRIPPER Im available for weddings, parties, barmitzvahs etc etc
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1800 HUBBA HUBBA
He did say just a little at a time
:)
This morning I removed the skin from the LHS door frame, what a mess underneath. :(
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the skin has one small hole approx 2mm in diameter, an awful lot of crud trapped
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The door frame has a section of electrolysis on the gal, which chipped off easily enough
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anyone contemplating a restoration of a Series Land Rover should do this as a matter of course, to prevent further decay, not much else can be done today as I'm off to work in just over 90 minutes :o:( anyway back into it tomorrow, cheers Dennis:angel:
Thats the problem Aluminum & galv dont mix well.:o
I'm well versed with that problem (Electrolysis) having owned around 16 Land Rovers over the past 40 years LOL, the worst by far were the Series 3 in my opinion, cheers Dennis:angel:
