1963 Dodge Dart 270 Convertible for the Wife
Well I spent last night looking up chuck wagons and how hard it would be to restore one..... Today back to reality....
Here is my coal slag blast station. Blasted out the places I needed to weld and the wheel well lip. I have decided I am going to put a cut in the panel so I can pull the lip out further to blast it completely. It is sort of blasted but if I did all this work it would be stupid to only get it half a$$ed blasted before the epoxy primer.
All blasted. I think blasting the whole car like this is not going to be difficult at all.
Swiss cheese appeared after blasting it.
So-so blasting. Like I said need to cut the quarter to allow this to pull out further to blast it better than weld up the cuts..
Going green. Recycled the blast media by running it through a wire mesh.
Need to make a patch here.
A little plate steel I bought for the Coronet and used on the Duster and now the Dart forms a custom repair. I am not looking for style points here just a solid patch.
All done.
I clamped the patch on the outside of the panel and used the o-ring pick to scratch where I need to cut the patch panel. Glad I did not cut it today as when I sanded off some of the bondo I found a patch brazed in above were I was going to cut the patch. Need to add another 1" of patch area to the quarter by the taillight.
Just clamped over the quarter to mark it.
Well I spent last night looking up chuck wagons and how hard it would be to restore one..... Today back to reality....
Here is my coal slag blast station. Blasted out the places I needed to weld and the wheel well lip. I have decided I am going to put a cut in the panel so I can pull the lip out further to blast it completely. It is sort of blasted but if I did all this work it would be stupid to only get it half a$$ed blasted before the epoxy primer.
All blasted. I think blasting the whole car like this is not going to be difficult at all.
Swiss cheese appeared after blasting it.
So-so blasting. Like I said need to cut the quarter to allow this to pull out further to blast it better than weld up the cuts..
Going green. Recycled the blast media by running it through a wire mesh.
Need to make a patch here.
A little plate steel I bought for the Coronet and used on the Duster and now the Dart forms a custom repair. I am not looking for style points here just a solid patch.
All done.
I clamped the patch on the outside of the panel and used the o-ring pick to scratch where I need to cut the patch panel. Glad I did not cut it today as when I sanded off some of the bondo I found a patch brazed in above were I was going to cut the patch. Need to add another 1" of patch area to the quarter by the taillight.
Just clamped over the quarter to mark it.