great day for progress

[dogfather]

today has been great, my gaffa called me this morning sick so day off work (bonus). i called jeff who came down right away and full of energy. We removed the A panels to get to the rust behind them pictured below



I cut all the rust out (which was a bh of a job), linished all around to the clean metal, made some new panels to run straight down just past the hole that houses the air duct behind the dash so i had to cut the hole into the new panel i made (also a bh of a job without the right tools, it took a while but i got it perfect). Had to do this to both sides but gladly all done now and skuttle in place for tomorow.



some advice needed please what would you do here???????? .....thanks neale...

[Mini_Lund]

You do this (abit of inspiration)

[dogfather]

forgot to say, whilst jeff was welding , i wondered off into the shed to get my fags. On my return i see lots of black smoke (OH st), ive just cleaned up the whole bulkhead, flatted it down and primed it so i masked up the lower engine bay in NEWS PAPER!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I ran over to the mini and just started ripping the burning paper out and throwing it over my head like a man possesed and setting fire to the grass and cardboard behind me. The next thing i know, jeff has got the hose on full blast covering me and the still burning mini in some much needed water.

I was soaked but the fire was out. I primed it in white which is now 2 3rds charcoal black so back to the flatting down for me. Hehehe we laughed our nuts of after.

[dogfather]

thanks alot mate thats a good help. it looks fairly straight forward nice job.

Edited by dogfather on Wednesday 21st May 22:44

[guru_1071]

impressed your doing the scuttle with the wings in situ, ive always thought this was impossible to do properly.

p.s your not a proper welder until youve had a fire!

good effort!

[dogfather]

guru_1071 said:

impressed your doing the scuttle with the wings in situ, ive always thought this was impossible to do properly.

p.s your not a proper welder until youve had a fire!

good effort!

thanks guru, I do remember a few weeks bak you told me to remove the wings but once the space under both arches were cleared i.e air pipes under drivers side and the vacuum (i think thats what it is) from passenger side and A panels removed, there is plenty of room to get around, but on the other hand we havnt started welding the skuttle yet so anything could happen and if so wings off. Ill let you no in a while how i get on im just going out to start it befor i run out of light. p.s my welding i coming on now and ive found out im real good at body repairs, (result for me) ill post some repair pics i have done so you can be the judge. thanks again...neale...

[Cooperman]

Keep up the good work. It looks as though you're doing very well with the welding.

[guru_1071]

cheers neal

im making the doors for my minisprint this weekend, so i may be eating humble welding pie by tuesday!

rich

[dogfather]

Cooperman said:

Keep up the good work. It looks as though you're doing very well with the welding.

thanks cooperman, havent seen you for a while. Well here are my first couple of body repairs, ive think ive done a grand job but you guys may differ so honest opions please. The first repair is the door step which is almost finished just needs another rub down, i replaced the whole corner down to the bottom seem. The bulk head was a little worse and challenging, i cut the rust out, made the plates and welded it inside and out, ground it down and reshaped.

I hope these are up to standards so let me know what you think..thanks neale..

Edited by dogfather on Friday 23 May 14:11

[Cooperman]

If that's your first effort at MIG welding, I think you are doing great. Use some flexible seam sealer to complete the job before painting. I use the seam sealer which paints on - or rather it brushes on like tar! When painted it does look fine.
Keep up the great work,

Peter