At 10:08 AM 6/23/99 -0700, Reed Cary wrote:
From: Reed Cary <recary@...>
--- "K. R." <kr98664@...> wrote:
From: "K. R." <kr98664@...>
--- Reed Cary <recary@...> wrote:
From: Reed Cary <recary@...>
--- Merl <hollowel@...> wrote:
This stuff doesn't hide bodywork imperfections
near as well as flat, but it should be a lot
easier to keep clean.
Know what you are saying here, Merl. But just on a
point of taste (not relating to what you've
said) I like the old roughness of a jeep body. I
made a point of *not* bondo'ing the spot welds,
for example. Body people like to "skim" the body,
thus removing all these small imperfections.
My feeling is, hey it's a jeep and that primative
character is part of it.
My $0.02,
Reed (CA)
===
Ah, yes, now Vern enters the equation:
I, too, am somewhat partial to all the spotwelds, etc.
In the course of my crimes against autobody repair, I
got to wondering about these original marks.
Specifically, I did some minor repair to the top edge
of one of the fenders. After I got it all nice and
smooth, I realized I had faired over some but not all
of the spotwelds. It was quite noticeable when wet
with primer. I ended up letting it dry, and removed
some of the filler over the spotwelds so it wasn't so
obvious.
Two paragraphs later, my question: If you had to do
some bodywork directly over some of the spotwelds, how
could you make it not stand out? To see a row of
spotwelds stop and start up again can look kind of
funny. I'm not real picky about the bodywork, and
expect to get this jeep somewhat beat up and
scratched. But I do like to keep from drawing
attention to my obviously amateur bodywork. I had
even experimented sanding small circular depression to
match but it looked even worse.
Vern, seems you have a new angle on everything. Dunno. My jeep had been
in some previous
accidents, and I discovered several areas filled with lead. I don't know
when this dates from, but
I wasn't about to mess with it. Inside they had used (I don't know what
it's called) the pointed
end of a welder's slag hammer, to drive out the panel. Very unsightly. But
hey, if not original
it's antique! And of course the lead covered some of the spot welds
formerly visable on the
outside. Guess I just thought "it ain't my fault, and there's nothin I can
do about it".
Maybe you should think about like the traditional fencers in France, who
would rub salt in the
wound just to make a scar, which they could proudly display.
Reed (CA)
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