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Apr 3, 2006 | 09:45 PM

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Fomoko1

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Excellent sheet metal work, post as you go along as it looks great.

Apr 8, 2006 | 09:48 PM

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Finished all the metal patching.

During the week we wired brushed rust and applied POR-15 rust encapsulator to the underside.

This weekend we stripped the remaining paint, the little left, and the surface rust, a lot left, and got the parts in epoxy primer.

Next week, if we have time, start filling, sanding and priming.

Jul 2, 2006 | 08:35 PM

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Finally after working almost non-stop for the last two months I took some time out to work on my fenders this weekend. It's been nuts at work, business was just rolling in and I wasn't about to turn any of it down. I grab it when I can because I have been in some real lean times.

Anyways, after working on the fenders Saturday and Sunday I finally got the fenders filled and back in epoxy primer. Tomorrow night I am applying sand and fill primer. Then the blocking starts.

Jul 2, 2006 | 08:52 PM

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Looking great, Bob! I sure wish I had all steel, in that shape! Are you doing the painting too?

Jul 2, 2006 | 09:09 PM

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Yeah, I do all my own work when possible. I can't afford to farm it out. I'm going to use tractor restoration paint from the farm supply store, gallon of paint, thinner and hardener -$60. A lot cheaper than the acrylic urethane I used on my F-2. I have used this paint on other projects for the last few years and it holds up really well. I already have the firewall of the F-4 painted with it and it's almost the exact color as my F-2.

BTW, I thought all you guys in the SW had rust free sheetmetal laying around all over the place.

Take a look at the beginning of this thread to see what I started with

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Jul 2, 2006 | 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by bobj49f2

BTW, I thought all you guys in the SW had rust free sheetmetal laying around all over the place.

Take a look at the beginning of this thread to see what I started with

Yeh, I re-read you and BobbyT's discussion, pretty funny! The truth is, "normal" cars stay rust-free and solid forever, but back 50 yrs ago, trucks were used as trucks, and they were driven on a lot of unpaved roads around NM/CO/WY. So whenever it rained, and the farmers/ranchers would drive them on dirt or sand roads, that mud would get packed in all the "usual places" that we now find rust. Nothing holds water better than NM clay! My truck was from Northern NM, which is pretty wet in some areas, and was clearly parked in a stream at one point (how else would you get fishing line wrapped around the rear axle?!)