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Definitely hard sometimes to focus on a project one step at a time. Thanks for the reply.
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Your work looks great, i think this car is in good hands.
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Nice looking work,keep it up!
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That was a great result for sure.
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Structural first. Start inside and work your way out.
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Good way of working for sure. Been a long time lurker in the thread for your Cadillac. Has been a good source of motivation seeing the progress!
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Long time since the last update. There has only been some slow chipping away now and then during the summer.
The area around the windshield/dashboard was badly rusted so I made an attempt to fix it. Result is OK, made in several parts. Only tools used were manual bead roller, english wheel and hammers+dollies. Shrinker-stretcher might have made things easier This was the starting point: I started out by making the channel for the windshield / part of the dashboard. It was made in two parets. The bends were first started with the bead roller and then further made with hammer and dollies: Next and last step for this section was to make the slight bend for the dashboard shape: For the other section of the part that meets the cowl area I also started also with two parts, making the step first and then welding them together and after welding further improving the step. (Result of cranking this long piece in the manual bead-roller alone screwed my back up for a few weeks.. ) Next was to try and replicate the shaped "ears" with slots for the cowl to hook into: Then the two pieces were welded together and smoothed out with hammer and dolly: This was the result after beginning to weld it in: After this, one of the A-pillars was also repaired that had very bad pitting as well as some of the rust in the dashboard ends: Lastly, covered in some primer to avoid rust while working on other things: I think the result was OK given the starting point and tools, but it was the most challenging pieces I have made so far and I sure would have it a bit easier by getting a shrinker-stretcher machine. It will take a bit of filler to make perfect but it is good enough for me! |
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Very impressive! Way better than "OK",
Cheers Charlie
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Thank you! A replacement part would maybe not have been perfect either anyway. The money saved does not justify the time, but the experience gained does.
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You have done a great job regardless of tools used.
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