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21-08-2007, 11:34 AM
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I bought a second hand car book, all about the car ,how it works, its maintenances and repair. Turning to the body repair section i couldn't believe my eye when i saw how they recommended to deal with rust. For extensive rust you are supposed to grind the paint off, bash it in, fill with chicken wire, them bog it up. I think we have all heard of these sort of dodgy repairs being done, but to see it printed in a book as being the way to do it is unbelievable.
The book was printed in 1970, but surely this wouldn't have been acceptable back then.    |
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21-08-2007, 11:37 AM
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21-08-2007, 11:38 AM
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I think the person that made that booked owned a Kingswood lol!
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21-08-2007, 12:19 PM
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I think the person that made that book did the first repairs on my car!!!!!
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21-08-2007, 12:29 PM
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Absolutely, have done that sort of thing on many busted- daily drivers just to pass inspections. Obviously wouldn't use it on something I intend to keep though.
Hot tip: If you use coke cans filled with iron filings and then bashed flat, a magnet will stick to it. Good as new! NH
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21-08-2007, 04:07 PM
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Where to next??
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Haaaaa..
I have a book running round that uses a method for correcting slight dents by shrinking and expanding the panel using heat and cold. One of the pictures has a guy using wads of asbestos fibres soaked in water for the 'cooling' part. Heating was with a blow torch. |
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21-08-2007, 04:14 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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That method has to be better than what a mate of mine did to fix his rust,he filled the sills with cement,he trowelled it off nicely then painted it with a brush
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21-08-2007, 04:21 PM
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21-08-2007, 05:49 PM
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That just reminded me of that 'bush mechanics' series on sbs.
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21-08-2007, 06:02 PM
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Go Hard or Go Home
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Nothing I haven't done before...
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21-08-2007, 06:15 PM
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Like no other..........
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Location: Over here.... Mod:FPV & XR Owners Club of Victoria
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Recoil, that is gold!
I love the "hammer away until sound metal is reached"..........
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21-08-2007, 08:25 PM
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I used to have that book. It was by the AA Automobile Association in the UK.
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21-08-2007, 08:34 PM
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playing in my big shed
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my first car - an XW sedan , had sills filled with about 10 sydney morning heralds with the holes expertly covered with duct tape before the bog over .
they had done a real good job too. car was only 11 years old when i bought it and already rusted.
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Chicken wire repairs
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