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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #195 on: January 20, 2020, 05:38:25 PM »
Glad you got it whipped Sixball, now back to work on the Roadster! About the first icey windy storm we get i'll probably wish i would have traded for a new carb for the generator instead of primer and thinner. :o

After couple days off for hands to comeback, i found a couple more rust holes. Spent day cutting more and bending up patches. Dang that 18ga. sheet metal is really tuff to bend in a short width!  Got all the patches tacked in. Probably be down for couple days again.  :-\   Hopefully get it welded up solid and ground down by thursday.
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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #196 on: January 20, 2020, 06:58:43 PM »
Nice metal work Sammons :D
Spending time with my grandkids gets in the way of finishing my car but I don't regret it!

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #197 on: January 20, 2020, 10:38:27 PM »
Sammons I'll be thinking of your skills when we get to patches on the roadster. They will be less involved than what you are doing. I was also thinking of you during the pipe ordeal because some how I beat the crap out of my hands. Everything I touch hurts. I know mine will get better but they still will not be as skilled as yours. Just a little more admiration for your work.  :)
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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #198 on: January 21, 2020, 09:55:04 AM »
Steve...nice work my friend..yes that 18 gauge metal can be a bear to bend..especially if you don't have a break and have to use what is available.. :o...been doing a few things on the 33 but limited due to the weather

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #199 on: January 21, 2020, 01:28:16 PM »
Thanks guys. Ed i have a brake, but bending tight stepup/downs close together  it trys to raise up vs bend. Should have left more material for leverich then cut off extra. Live and learn  ;)

It took 3 hrs to get my pants buttoned this morning.😡  Sixball, my hands are almost to the point of being useless. Every month now i have to figure a new way to hold, pick up, or pull the trigger/ plug in air tools. I'm good with paddle triggers like on the die grinders, but drill type triggers are a real challenge.

I give up on my tin snips the other day, couldn't get past just a nip. Told Tom he would have to cut patterns, he brought over a table top Eastwood throatless metal shear. That's the bees knees and cuts effortlessly, pretty darned agile on tight curves! Impressed with it, problem solved!  ;D

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #200 on: January 21, 2020, 06:56:02 PM »
Haha, that'll teach Tom to come check up on me! ;D   My hands started to work this afternoon so i thought i'd get started on welding. Finished and was trying to finish up grinding/sanding when he showed up. I put him to work. All ready for some filler and primer, ahead of scheduel! 😁 

Get that done and flip for exterior patch.

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #201 on: January 21, 2020, 09:23:30 PM »
You sir are an inspiration. Kind of make me fee like a sissy.  :)
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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #202 on: January 22, 2020, 10:55:49 AM »
wow look at that metal work...  what a master !!

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #203 on: January 23, 2020, 09:02:05 AM »
That looks awesome, Sammons. Your buddy has to be mighty pleased.
Tighten it up til it strips, then back it off a quarter turn

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #204 on: January 23, 2020, 10:31:42 AM »
Sixball just before my old man had to give it up, we were straightning a frame. We had it tied down and Kansas jack pulling, he was on the rosebud torch and me swinging the hammer. I got one of those solid hits that traveled clear up to my shoulder. I give a holler and his response was "Son you don't know pain". I thought, you crazy 'ol fart...that hurt! Lol now I know what he was talking about.

28, it's just cut, bend, paste.  ;)   If you take time on making an acurate pattern, thats most of it. I try not to get carried away trying to make it up to true master level. (Not that I could) Sure as heck can't do it anymore. Nobody was ever willing to pay the extra time required for that. Most the time it's never going to be seen anyway.

Chopper, I think he's just pleased he didn't have to do it and doesn't have to wipe my butt YET!  ;D  Tom is one of my best friends and has been since he started the High School work study program in '84. After he graduated he decided to be a mechanic and went to trade school. Turned wrenches for years and got tired of it.

We clicked '84  and have tag teamed our projects from then on. He usually does the mechanical parts and me the body/paint work.

Tom came over yesterday morn to wire brush the rest of the door jam, found more rust. It was from a mice nest behind the lower door hinge box.😡  So more cut and paste!

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #205 on: January 23, 2020, 01:20:47 PM »
Looks good sammons or should I say great. All you guys are talented and a pleasure to hang out with.

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #206 on: January 23, 2020, 03:58:30 PM »
Thanks Ghost, yes there is a lot of talent on this site. And these guys with the wood....now that is some Wizardry!   My patients runs out when cutting wood. You can't just grab the welder and stick it back together ;)

How is the '55 coming along?

Anybody heard from Munch? Think he was starting an AD pick up build.

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #207 on: January 23, 2020, 04:05:55 PM »
Thanks Ghost, yes there is a lot of talent on this site. And these guys with the wood....now that is some Wizardry!   My patients runs out when cutting wood. You can't just grab the welder and stick it back together ;)

How is the '55 coming along?

Anybody heard from Munch? Think he was starting an AD pick up build.
Yeah I tend to burn wood when I work with it, I have been putting some finishing touches on a model a coupe for a customer, and started up working on the roadster truck wiring although I sold it.
 The 55 gasser is coming along, and the frame is finished completely and ready to install the engine and all the rest, but I want to get the underside of the body finished before mating them together. Maybe late spring ar summer to have it together. hopefully

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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #208 on: January 23, 2020, 05:20:24 PM »
Can you imagine if we put all our skills into one car. That would be one bad a$$ car. 😁
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Re: What Did You do Today - Car Related?
« Reply #209 on: January 23, 2020, 07:33:57 PM »
Can you imagine if we put all our skills into one car. That would be one bad a$$ car. 😁
Can that car be mine ;D ;D ;D
Spending time with my grandkids gets in the way of finishing my car but I don't regret it!

 


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