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[NE-Matt]

Just read thru this thread and loving it. I like the just get it done attitude of it all, I've spent months worrying about my dodgy (but solid!) rear quarters whereas you've just got on and sorted them in no time!!

It's threads like this that really make me want to go get myself a welder and some sanding blocks and just get stuck in!!

[panelbeaterpeter]

Just read thru this thread and loving it. I like the just get it done attitude of it all, I've spent months worrying about my dodgy (but solid!) rear quarters whereas you've just got on and sorted them in no time!!

It's threads like this that really make me want to go get myself a welder and some sanding blocks and just get stuck in!!

Cheers for the kind words! I am kinda lucky in that I work in a bodyshop and have all the tools etc, makes it a lot easier.

Edited by panelbeaterpeter, 07 December 2007 - 08:40 PM.

[NE-Matt]

Yeah I guess having the skills and kit helps a bit!!

I've not even got a garage!! lol

[camp freddy]

I did my first mini outside through the winter and in the snow!!!

[NE-Matt]

yeah but was it any good??

[camp freddy]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

[panelbeaterpeter]

haha

[NovaNath]

Ideally you would replace both inner and outer skins, either by making accurate sections, welding them at either end, then plug or spot welding them together and seam welding either side along at the base, or do what I did which is less original but does a perfectly good job, just get a bit of 1.8 ml steel sheet, make a piece and seam weld it along the base, both sides and the ends. You couldn't really do it with metal any thinner than that as it wouldn't be as strong if you were levering the rubber to get the window in or out etc, plus it wouldn't seal correctly.

Hope that's a help..

Thanks, that's a great help.
...now if it would stop raining so i could peel pack the tarp!

[panelbeaterpeter]

OK, I need a new door skin..


Luckily I've got one at home in Scotland, I'll have to get someone to post it me!

Anyway that discovery kind of made me a bit disillusioned so I decided to have a Saturday off! woohooo.

Here's some amazingly exiting (insert sarcasm here) pictures of primed STUFF that I got done last week.

Roof


Refurbed O/S door


That's all for now. I'm off to read NME with a massive bar of cadburys wholenut. Mwahaha.

[Bungle]

looks all white

well off white

[panelbeaterpeter]

Hmm yes. Rather a Moroccan beige I think.

[James182]

Why dont you weld up the door skin instead of replacing the whole lot?..surely it would b easier and a lot less work?

[NE-Matt]

I think he just wanted a day off!!!

[panelbeaterpeter]

Nope wouldn't be easier, to do the job properly would mean cutting off the bottom section of the door, and setting in a new piece, accurately bent and shaped to be exactly the same shape as the old one. Also it would have to be seam welded straight across the middle of the skin, it is almost impossible to do this without warping it. Also it's full of filler. It takes about 15 minutes to fit a new one, which I already have. So in short, no it wouldn't be easier.
And yeah I did kinda fancy a day off...

[Al*]

looking great Peter... and it's kinda funny how people who have never done a doorskin imagine it to be a ridiculously hard job...(including myself before i really got into the trade) once you've done a few you realise how much easier it is than patching a door..... and tidier... anyways keep it up Peter...!!!

Al