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| posted on August 18th, 2012 at 09:23 PM |
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Floor's looking sweet mate.
"Obey your Dreams"!
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6? coming very soon!!!!
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| posted on September 16th, 2012 at 07:35 PM |
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Work continues...slowly!
Have been spending free time sanding back seat frames and painting them ready for reupholstering.
Am also working through the body issues, removing more bog and welding in repair panels. Will try and post some pics soon. Have a week off in October,
really hoping to get a fair bit done on the body. Hoping to be ready for paint by the end of the year. A lot of hope!!
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| posted on September 16th, 2012 at 08:06 PM |
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Keep it going mate just yell if you need a hand.
"Obey your Dreams"!
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| posted on October 1st, 2012 at 08:12 AM |
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Here's a bit of an update.
Have sanded down and resprayed the seat frames, did the first one with the springs in place, then found it was easier to remove them.
Used a Dulux Industrial rattle can from Bunnings. It didn't work well with the Septone clear coat, so ended up rubbing it back and using a Dulux
clear coat. Took twice as long to finish but it makes sense to use the same brand all the way. At the time the Septone was what I had. You live and
learn!
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| posted on October 1st, 2012 at 08:17 AM |
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| posted on October 1st, 2012 at 08:18 AM |
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After many evenings sat staring at the damaged rear quarter panel I made the leap to cut it out and put some new steel in there. I had already put in
a repro panel to replace the really badly buckled section, but the area above it was very badly dimpled and had a large fold from whatever hit the
door frame in a previous life.
I'm still not 100% happy with my welding skills but as I practise it seems to be coming together. Half way through I realised this was probably not
the best way to practise, but hey ho I persevered and got there in the end.
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| posted on October 1st, 2012 at 08:19 AM |
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my neighbours love me and my grinder!!! 
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| posted on October 1st, 2012 at 08:23 AM |
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I'm also working my way through the wings, need to reposition the indicator on the passenger side wing as it currently sits too close to the head
light (replacement wing). Fixing rust and dings as I go.
The yellow primer filler is good stuff for covering up little scratches.
I'm not going back to bare steel where I don't have too.
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| posted on October 1st, 2012 at 09:37 PM |
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Nice to see the progress.
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58 Baja ute - and the pain spreads!
85 T3 Kombi - still growing
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| posted on October 1st, 2012 at 09:39 PM |
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keep it up mate
"Obey your Dreams"!
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| posted on October 8th, 2012 at 05:51 PM |
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So my week off begins with a revisit to my last job. I wasn't happy with the finish of the qtr panel repair. It was not the right shape and I was
hoping for a no bog / light skim finish, but it was looking like it needed more of the dreaded bog, and I don't wanna go back there. So, thanks to
Luftmeister I landed a repair panel from another 62.
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| posted on October 8th, 2012 at 05:56 PM |
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Cut out the old /repaired section
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| posted on October 8th, 2012 at 05:57 PM |
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and, following some sound advice from Luftmeister, I grafted in the repair panel.... I kept the lower half of the original repair, as the replacement
panel was a little rusted.
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| posted on October 8th, 2012 at 06:51 PM |
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Good work Nick.
Customer service is not dead in Australia.
Always after HAZET & MATRA & VW factory tools
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| posted on October 9th, 2012 at 10:02 PM |
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Day two of my 'resto' holiday.
I spent most of the day arranging gas supply, as I was using those little disposable gas cylinders you can get from Repco / hardware stores, but have
realised that they contain less gas than a fart... so I bit the bullet and hired a tank from an Air Liquide outlet. I then had to source the regulator
and all the bits to connect it up to my MIG. Quite an exxy day!
After all that I got a few hours of cutting and patching done.... Front valance had a hole, so too the inner wing.
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| posted on October 9th, 2012 at 10:03 PM |
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patched with real steel 
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| posted on October 9th, 2012 at 10:04 PM |
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inner wing patched...
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| posted on October 9th, 2012 at 10:09 PM |
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Also stripped the horsehair and some of the glue from the luggage compartment.
I had read on here that Goof Off worked well on the glue, but I didn't find that to be the case. It worked well around the windows getting the glue
and fluff off that was left over from the headlining, but elbow grease and a wire brush got me this far in the luggage area.
Any recommendations for getting the last of the glue off... I'm assuming I should remove all of this old stuff so the new carpet glue will adhere
properly??
Also those hooks that run up the pillar to attach the headlining are little bastards! Ripped my thumb open good and proper. Might tape them up to
prevent further injury!
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| posted on October 10th, 2012 at 06:29 PM |
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Day three
Spent all day stripping the decklid and repairing the inevitable rust / previous repairs. I found more bog layered thick on top of some quick and
nasty repair work, so had to cut it out and put in some fresh steel.
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| posted on October 10th, 2012 at 06:31 PM |
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cut out the old repair...
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| posted on October 10th, 2012 at 06:33 PM |
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...and put in some new steel.
My welding is slowly getting better. I seem to lay down a lot of weld though, which takes some grinding back, and I'm always having to fix up little
holes. Need to fine tune my wire speed and the speed I am welding I think...
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| posted on October 10th, 2012 at 06:38 PM |
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Also filled the indicator hole in the passenger side wing. This wing is not the original one and the indicator was far too low when compared to the
original wing on the drivers side.
Will redrill new holes before paint.
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| posted on October 10th, 2012 at 06:38 PM |
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Nice work man !
"Obey your Dreams"!
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| posted on October 10th, 2012 at 06:41 PM |
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Thanks Tarin. I'm itching to get it complete but still a way to go yet (gotta save some $$ for the paint!)
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| posted on October 11th, 2012 at 07:39 PM |
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day four.... time to strip!
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| posted on October 11th, 2012 at 07:41 PM |
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used paint stripper, a chisel and then my orbital sander with 60 grit, then 120 grit. Came up a treat, and no rust or previous repairs!! I was
surprised
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| posted on October 11th, 2012 at 07:42 PM |
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now moved on to the roof... will finish off tomorrow.
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