Thread: My 1955 86" rebuild.

sorry should have specified the colour of what haha but yes i meant the car, thanks mate

My fingers are tingling/burning from the paint stripper that I have been applying to the seatbox assembly. I am trying to do in a way that still gives me a hand hold when using the paint scraper, damn seatbox is way too light LOL, here it is after the effort so far this week
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...psb49d436a.jpg
yes still a lot of paint to strip off but I think I'm getting there.
No word about the carburettor overhaul, but on the upside the solid rivets I ordered from the UK turned up today, so I guess the next job after the seatbox will be to knock off the rivet heads to remove the bonnet underframe, anyway I'm off to dilute my hands, cheers Dennis

Not a great deal of time was to be had today, the morning flew, car club run n meeting, home after midday, lunch then finish off the seatbox, stripping it of paint etc.
The inside of the bonnet was next on the agenda, last week or was it the week before?? I removed a rivet by mistake and noticed an awful lot of electrolysis fall out when I knock it through, so I decided to remove the frame from the underside of the bonnet, that's a lot of rivets LOL.
The first thing I saw when the frame was removed was several patches of electrolysis
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps46da5e61.jpg
this was removed and binned, all rivet heads/swarf picked up so the Poodle Patrol don't get it caught in their hair etc, and dare devil dog 'Sophie' pictured
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps32a2103e.jpg
doesn't try to eat them , anyway I managed to start stripping paint off but only a small area attained, getting late n cold, seems to slow the process, the frame will get grit blasted through the week sometime, anyway cheers Dennis
ps I guess the first item I paint in Deep Bronze Green will be the inside (along the outline of the frame) of the bonnet n frame

Hi Dennis
Not sure on this but are you sure the underside of the bonnet is painted? I know the 80"isn't. I think I will use either lanolin or fish oil under the ribs to stop this problem on klonk.

Cheers Steve

Originally Posted by klonk

Hi Dennis
Not sure on this but are you sure the underside of the bonnet is painted? I know the 80"isn't. I think I will use either lanolin or fish oil under the ribs to stop this problem on klonk.

Cheers Steve

You are correct 80's are not painted & I am also not sure about the others

I do not know whether they were painted from the factory or not, but this one was painted in several colours on the underside of the bonnet, I intend to paint it and the frame inside and out, to help in it's long term preservation, cheers Dennis

I get into trouble when I mention paint, it's a grey area that I don't know much about.

I have a question.

Whereabouts in Australia is a good source of the sized solid rivets used around the body of series one?
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Hi
one place in my shed
cheers
Ian