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[v21ash]

Thanks, i even clean up welds etc in places were no-one will every be able to see them so i think i'm the odd one

I've just replied to your post, if it doesn't extend down below the floor/closing panel then you'll need to extend it so you've got something to weld to.

[madboy]

amazing work mate

[chrisholland1983]

Will it be ready for our wedding?
Lol not ours :-P i mean mine and Jo's :-D

[v21ash]

amazing work mate

Thank you

Will it be ready for our wedding?
Lol not ours :-P i mean mine and Jo's :-D

LMAO you had me worried then if i can keep up the progress then it's possible, if anything stops me it'll be finding the spare money to get her painted.

[MINI-TURBO]

its coming along realy well mate, keep it up

[chrisholland1983]

Hopefully getting ruby done towards the end of the year and to be done before the wedding )

[v21ash]

its coming along realy well mate, keep it up

Thanks, i normally loose interest after a few weeks but i can see the light at the end of the tunnel now Hopefully start getting her in primer in the next couple of weeks

Hopefully getting ruby done towards the end of the year and to be done before the wedding )

Is colin doing her? He'll be able to take early retirement after he finished your collection

Edited by v21ash, 06 June 2011 - 08:56 PM.

[chrisholland1983]

Haha yeah he is she's rustier than yours :/

[v21ash]

Haha yeah he is she's rustier than yours :/

I know No problem for colin though, he likes a challenge

[v21ash]

Well i managed to drag myself in the garage even though i really couldn’t be bothered tonight.
I’ve welded some nuts on the rear valance for the fog lamp brackets, for some reason some heritage valance’s come with the nuts and some don’t???
I primed the closing panels & valance and i have seam sealed the edges of the closing panels to try and stop moisture getting between them and the floor, they will be sealed all the way round eventually and i will be blowing a load of wax oil in the voids at the ends of the valance too.
Got the valance bolted in position but haven’t welded it up yet as i want to clamp it up and make sure all the seams will be in the correct position before i weld anything.
And finally i got the join in the boot floor welded all the way across, just need to dress the weld now, and it looks like i’m only just going to have enough gas and wire to finish all the welding.

Edited by v21ash, 06 June 2011 - 09:24 PM.

[R1minimagic]

What is the pink/gold paint for?

[v21ash]

It's weld through primer, if i leave the e-coating on the spot welder can't weld it. I normally use zinc rich which is silver but i couldn't get any so i had to use copper rich, which to be honest isn't as good.

Edited by v21ash, 06 June 2011 - 09:28 PM.

[Giff]

The zinc plating looks fantastic especially the yellow/gold passivated parts. How are you preparing the nuts and bolts for plating?

[v21ash]

i'm quite pleased with how most of the zinc plated bits have turned out, i've had to do a few bits twice though as sometimes they come out grey. I've used a clear blue passivate on most of the bolts which looks good too.
I clean all the items with an ammonium chloride electrolyte which strips the old zinc plating, rust, paint etc back to bright steel then dip in hyrochloric acid for 20 moins before plating.

[hughJ]

This is a quality restoration. It wouldn't matter how hard I tried I couldn't work to your standard. Thanks for the fantastic information.

Hugh