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44dawgs

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Posted: September 12, 2005 at 7:59 PM / IP Logged

well let's see if this works, it's photo bucket so it should be ok. pics of the shaving prcess, i haven't taken pics of the finished thing, but i'll do that as soon as i can. ok tell me what you think... thanks for the comments.

ps. the reason why i did this was because my car was almost broken into, so i decided to get rid of the lock to avoid future attempts. now don't get me wrong, the city where i live now is pretty safe, but i work nights, and i have to leave my car on the street, so theres a bigger risk... lucky for me thieves here are a bit dumb!!! lol

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44dawgs

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Posted: September 12, 2005 at 8:04 PM / IP Logged

i mucked it up again, copy the links without the [IMG]'s and they should work. How can i post pics more easily??? HELP!

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Posted: September 13, 2005 at 2:23 AM / IP Logged

Not bad at all. If you have the chance get to the inside of the hatch and clean and seal the inside of the weld to keep rust working from the inside of the door out. Also put some primer on the body fill er to seal any water out. Just always keep in mind that rust will eat the car alive at any chance it gets so be carefull anytime you break the paint. Other than that, very nice work.

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Posted: September 13, 2005 at 7:53 AM / IP Logged

What did you weld that with?

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44dawgs

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Posted: September 13, 2005 at 4:14 PM / IP Logged

i welded it with a blowtorch and some wire. i have actually finised the thing, it's all painted and everything, and i did use bondo on the inside. here we don't have a lot of problems with rust as it is mostly dry here, but i did it just in case. after the pics here, i sanded a lot more, covered it with a couple of coates of white primer, then 2 white coats and two more coats of clear. it came out pretty ok, i'll take some more pics this weekend and i'll try to post them as soon as possible. auex, thanks for the help. i still dont understand how to post pics, but i'll figure it out. later

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Posted: September 14, 2005 at 12:54 AM / IP Logged

Looks good... what did you paint it with???

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44dawgs

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Posted: September 14, 2005 at 7:45 PM / IP Logged

i used dupont automotive paint, and i used a gravity gun. i saw a thing chip foose did with water sprayed on the car and paint over it, has anyone tried it?? it looks cool...

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Posted: September 21, 2005 at 5:14 PM / IP Logged

44dawgs wrote:

i used dupont automotive paint, and i used a gravity gun. i saw a thing chip foose did with water sprayed on the car and paint over it, has anyone tried it?? it looks cool...

please explain this. i do paint and body work and all i hear you saying is adhesion problems haha

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44dawgs

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Posted: September 23, 2005 at 11:52 AM / IP Logged

exactly, i don't know how, but after laying the first coat of base colour, he sprayed water on top, then the second coat, and i think they use heat to dry it so the water evaporates or something, but in the end the car looks as if it were wet...

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