fire and fun times on sunday
Jason's Commentary:
Well, it was an interesting weekend. Saturday was shite and rainy so the day was pretty much a loss. Sunday brought brighter and sunnier skies so it was off to the country to visit a buddy who knew a thing or two about rebuilding old broncos. He had offered his services and welder to smooth over a few things on Roxy including the antenna hole (who uses the radio anymore anyways?), the hood spray nozzle holes and finally on a whim, the rear hatch/1/4 panel body line just for the fuck of it.
With a grinding wheel, we ground down to bare metal and then started filling holes up with a MIG welder. The great moment of the day was when I gave the grinder to kate to grind the welds down on the hood to which she instantly refused. Kate didn't want to screw anything up but after telling her (again) that a) it's our car and we can fuck it up if we want but b) anything can be fixed. So yeah, one more tool fear down! Next it's my fear of being under a car. (Don't ask...)
Mental note: when inside the hatch, holding a piece of flat copper to be a base for the roof welding, don't keep leg directly under what is being welded on haha
The roof and hood were filled without a hitch and then it was on to the rear seams. We had to dig the body filler out (which I never knew was body filler from the factory) and scraped down to bare metal. The welder kept getting wind blown as you can see in the following pics but after we got the settings and temp right, it was all business.
Only caught the car on fire twice!
*shakes fist at HIGHLY flamable filler*
Anyhoo, really starting to tinker with Roxy now and things are going to start going really fast soon as we have two rooms worth of shit to install now that it's finally warm out =)
Kate's blog addition and photos:
yeah! grind that crack!
all clean!
fires in the car. fires on the blanket. and blankets melting to the car. whee!
just needs some bondo!
sparks! sparks!
and that's all you get for now!
Well, it was an interesting weekend. Saturday was shite and rainy so the day was pretty much a loss. Sunday brought brighter and sunnier skies so it was off to the country to visit a buddy who knew a thing or two about rebuilding old broncos. He had offered his services and welder to smooth over a few things on Roxy including the antenna hole (who uses the radio anymore anyways?), the hood spray nozzle holes and finally on a whim, the rear hatch/1/4 panel body line just for the fuck of it.
With a grinding wheel, we ground down to bare metal and then started filling holes up with a MIG welder. The great moment of the day was when I gave the grinder to kate to grind the welds down on the hood to which she instantly refused. Kate didn't want to screw anything up but after telling her (again) that a) it's our car and we can fuck it up if we want but b) anything can be fixed. So yeah, one more tool fear down! Next it's my fear of being under a car. (Don't ask...)
Mental note: when inside the hatch, holding a piece of flat copper to be a base for the roof welding, don't keep leg directly under what is being welded on haha
The roof and hood were filled without a hitch and then it was on to the rear seams. We had to dig the body filler out (which I never knew was body filler from the factory) and scraped down to bare metal. The welder kept getting wind blown as you can see in the following pics but after we got the settings and temp right, it was all business.
Only caught the car on fire twice!
*shakes fist at HIGHLY flamable filler*
Anyhoo, really starting to tinker with Roxy now and things are going to start going really fast soon as we have two rooms worth of shit to install now that it's finally warm out =)
Kate's blog addition and photos:
yeah! grind that crack!
all clean!
fires in the car. fires on the blanket. and blankets melting to the car. whee!
just needs some bondo!
sparks! sparks!
and that's all you get for now!
This entry was posted by oh kate, on
Monday, March 26, 2007.
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March 26, 2007 10:51 PM
hooray, kate! :highfive:
March 27, 2007 8:24 AM
The RSS feed didn't bring up this most recent update. Might wanna check into that.