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Re: Brushing stainless - RobScott - 13 Jul 2013

yeah i'm up for that! he he he

i stripped off more paint today, so now both doors are done, right wing and half the front left wing Smile

so far damage is,

left door under mirror dented and 4 holes punched in the dent
right door A pillar dent 3 holes in dent, and the top edge of the door has been hammered in and 4 holes punched in.


bodyshops are suppost to get the dents out, then a skim of filler... but not this one :S looks like they used the haynes manual as a guide :S

Re: Brushing stainless - RobScott - 14 Jul 2013

Smile lol the fronts are 14x6 and rears 15x8 4x100 pcd


this is where i was up to this morning...

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wing stripped..

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scrape scrape scrape...

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sand sand sand....

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scraper on the left, sanded on the right...

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Dents found in the roof, and holes punched, so the filler would stick... nice :S

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dent in drivers door, holes punched in too :S

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I also took the windscreen out today too Big Grin

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end of the day...

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Re: Brushing stainless - Chris Williams - 14 Jul 2013

Crikey! dont you ever stop!, well done on what you have done so far.
Chris

Re: Brushing stainless - RobScott - 14 Jul 2013

lol, yeah, i was at the garage early this morning, the farmer and his wife are going on holiday in their caravan, so they wanted me to service their car and put a couple of new tyres on it. so i thought i might as well do some work on the delorean whilst i was there Big Grin

Re: Brushing stainless - RobScott - 14 Jul 2013

also, under the bonnet, its been sprayed with bed/trunk liner, but its scraping off ok to show the origional gloss black Smile

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Re: Brushing stainless - Rich Hanlon - 14 Jul 2013

Amazing work-rate fella!

The dents on the top of the door will be hardest to sort out I expect...

Re: Brushing stainless - Chris P - 15 Jul 2013

I'm sure Chris Nicholson would easily be able to fix he holes in your doors. He's a genius with stainless repairs.

Re: Brushing stainless - Starglider - 15 Jul 2013

That 'punch holes to make the filler stick' bodge job is criminal.

Re: Brushing stainless - RobScott - 16 Jul 2013

yeah its the top of the botch jobs ive ever seen :|

i'm pretty good at welding so the holes will be no problem, and some of the dents wont be too bad, but the passenger door roof section is well and truly fooked.

anyone got a door that has a good roof section but wrecked lower half? i could cut the roof section off and weld in a good one Smile


also another hole found Sad top of drivers side rear window Sad oh well.

Re: Brushing stainless - Guinney1971 - 17 Jul 2013

amazing work there Rob, what a credit to you this car will be when its done.

I've only got a knackered driver's door - full of dents and the top 'a pillar' is
twisted after my car broke free from the ramps one day in a single garage
and rolled down into the door frame with the door up (Martin G will remember
that day in 2003). I'm planning on turning the knackered door into a garden
feature at some point Smile

I got a good S/H door from Dave Howarth back then, it wasn't massively expensive
either.

My NSF wing had a split in it, and Chris Nicholson fixed it by Tig welding in a new
piece of metal then grinding and brushing back, to look at it now you'd never know Smile

Re: Brushing stainless - RobScott - 17 Jul 2013

outch, i bet you screamed when that happened! :S

the bottom of my door is totally mint, not one dent, its just the roof section, so if i can find one where the lower half has been wrecked, i can use the top half Big Grin

Re: Brushing stainless - Rich Hanlon - 18 Jul 2013

Just noticed - don't say you own a Leyland National as well?!

Re: Brushing stainless - RobScott - 18 Jul 2013

correct Big Grin

Re: Brushing stainless - RobScott - 18 Jul 2013

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Re: Brushing stainless - Chris Williams - 18 Jul 2013

Quote:Just noticed - don't say you own a Leyland National as well?!
I know sickening is'nt it (Rob, both Rich and I are big Leyland fans) well some one has to be! :roll:

Chris