Any progress is good progress!
looking forward to seeing this go back together. Nice score on the lathe too.
Any progress is good progress!
looking forward to seeing this go back together. Nice score on the lathe too.
I finally started digging into the rad support. Rusty nasty bottoms were cut out, and I blasted until I ran out of sand.
And I finally finished these wall signs. I plasma cut the pieces at work, but finally got them attached and painted.
Patches welded in:
Next patches formed:
And primed, to cure for another week (you can see the shifter arm and the proportioning valve mount here as well):
All this was primed, then welded in:
Also making changes to my solvent tank, which dissolved its second pump. Bought a skookum pump which will now be held in a translucent bucket, pumped up to the tank, and drained back into the bucket.
Inner fenders mounted so I could tweak the door-to-fender gaps.
Not perfect, but if you aim for perfection, you'll never get it finished; Chevy aimed low, I can too.
Handy to use studs to hang the fender when you know you're going to take them on and off repeatedly:
Also made a bit to my home-made slide hammer to pull door and fender edges into alignment with each other.
And just tried a bit of blocking on the walnut bag fender to see what would happen. This looks promising. Could build this up pretty easily with just more epoxy primer.
Things are progressing too slowly.
I recently bought a Hyundai Accent to daily drive (36mpg) instead of my C10 (10mpg). Our gas (premium, because 11:1) is $1.99/L, that's $5.50US/USgallon to you 'Muricans and £5.50/IMPgallon in the UK. The car will pay itself off in less than a year in savings alone. AND help me financially finish the '61.
Pops took a tumble recently, the second of significance, and that, coupled with a few other things has me looking for a care home for him as he's rapidly becoming unable to care for himself. My goal was to have the interior painted over Spring Break, but we'll see what happens.
If I have to choose between focusing on the truck or helping my pops, I have to choose my pops.
I'll keep you updated when I'm back on the truck.
Sorry to hear about the aging parent problems. I'm going thru some of that myself, so I can commiserate. I hope you find a reasonable spot for him.
In reply to SkinnyG (Forum Supporter) :
I love seeing your updates. Always informative and entertaining.
Began spraying the interior this afternoon.
While I am using a new charcoal mask and a relatively ventilated area, I'm not McLoving it. I already have asthma; this ain't making it better.
I ordered a supplied air system.
Well, bugger.
PPG DelFleet gets mixed 6:1:1 (paint/activator/hardener). For a semigloss, you would also add 3 parts flattener, so 6:1:1:3.
But like an idiot, I mixed the paint and flattener together, and then did 6:1:1 with THAT mix, which is too much. This gave me a mostly gloss, not a semi-gloss.
So.... a scuff and a re-shoot and we'll see what it looks like tomorrow.
Disassembled the hinges so they could be blasted and re-bushed. I need to get two pins. One for sure.
Then finished the door inners so that soon they can be sprayed gray and hung.
I got two new door pins. Yay. They're too long, but that's easier to deal with than too short.
I now have paint - a quart more of Mouse Gray, two gallons of Grabber Orange, and a quart of an Off-White that goes good with the Orange. $1100 CDN. Ouch.
Was going to shoot the gray on the door interior, but through a comedy of life doing me like it does, Ended up putting more primer down where I scuffed too deep.
Tomorrow I intend to shoot the doors.
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