Lloyd
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[quote=”Wydir” post=21375]yep +1
those time all look correct and the temp should not be a problem unless its over 95 so go for it and tell us how it went. :weights[/quote]
I totally agree…I too came back to body work and paint after a twenty year rest and the first victim was my own car. I painted it in a paint booth where the thermometer read 121 degrees (can you say clear coat orange peel supreme, haha). Follow these experts, they will not lead you wrong and welcome to the site.
MoCoke: Well, we are actually at that point now…of course I worked the metal as much as it would let me with retaliation, but the mudding has begun. I have been either too tired or too lazy to post pics, but I will.
Doc
As always, I appreciate your opinions…thanks for the replies!!!
Doc
Thanks, appreciate it!!!
lild, :agree , if he was paying that kind of money I would cut the whole roof off and just put one in with t-tops in it aleady. I have no shingle, no license, no formal training and nobody knows me as an autobody person, so I pick up table scraps from the big dogs like you all, haha 👿 . There are still a couple soft spots and it could probably use some more metal work. We shall see?
Doc
Well, I did a little more work today and we’re almost there (I consider this a group project since you guys help me). The roof is almost straight, here ar a few pics:
Thanks, Doc
Oh yeah Jayson, I forgot, all around the outside of the roof it is double panel (well there is extra support under the edges). Since that metal is very tight I am truly trying to not do to much to it to disturb it. You guys make this easy for me, it’s been a loooonnnngg time since I did something like this.
Jason: The very first thing I did was drop the head liner, so it’s been down the whole time. Actually that how I got most of the dent out a fist, from the inside. I’m just glad all the edges around the roof are still tight. What are you saying would have been easier with the headliner droped first?
Ben: Yeah, I tried massaging the edges with my little hammer from the crowns inwared to the dent depressions, didn’t work out so well, did it, haha. I’ll give it some more attention. Should have just taken eveything off and just cut the roof off all together. This is kind of fun though, so, we push-on.
Oil canning is when metal has been stretch past the “point of fatigue,” which is a point past permanent deformation. The is you push on the metal it does not has enough tensile strength to remain at its original position. Sorry, the engineering in me. Basically, is you a soda can and you push it in, it just pops back out, that’s what the roof is doing, you know that noise metal makes, boing, boing when you push it. Does that make sense? Sorry if I didn’t expain that properly, somebody else can probably make more sense of the effect.
Well, I got the stud welder today and all the dent except for 1 are within 1/8″ of level at this point. I did all the dents around the outside and wouldn’t you know it, more oil canning in the center of the roof. The only thing really left is the oil canning in the center of the roof, the filler and prime. Anyway, here we go with some pics (if I am posting too many pics somebody please let me know):
You just wait lil red, I’m going to grow up one day and be that good. Nice job!!!
lild, unfortunatley, that booth is not portable, it’s stays where it is, it’s just not finished, haha. Ben, absolutely will take a whole skim job. The guy who’s car it is cam and saw it today and said, “…that’s amazing, how’d you do that.” I said if I tell you I have to kill you, it’s a trade secret, 👿
The one little spot on the left side will be fixed, I have to take the hinge off first to get under it. Bummer, I’m tired right now from working all day though and it’s time to relax :stoned
Well, I got the trunk lid off and took some advice from Bondo and the roof is doing better than ever.
Hare a few pics of what the roof looks like now. It’s amazing what a #3 sledge hammer will do. Bondo told me to wait until I got the roof almost to the point where I wanted it to use the hammmer, but once I got that trunk lid off I was like a kid in a candy store. Pay attention to the first set of photos in the post and then look at these, here we go:
Thanks Bondo!!!
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Cool beans Nex, I love it!!!
