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Good info for SLO there Fred and I think you are correct. You guide coated your inner fenders? I thought I was anal. LOL
No not guide coat BP over spray from bed lining the under side. I screwed up and should have covered it and also my shop wall got peppered. LOL
No napping here. Just can't do it. I try once in a while. I'm pretty good at getting up late though, Ha. Hope ya have a good day Mark. Snowing like crazy here. Ain't suppose to amount to much though. I see Michigan is supposed to get hammered. You seeing any of that?
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Once again displaying my ignorance for all things body work, what the heck is guide coat? Pix of cowl support attached.
Ohhh, thats sucks. I sprayed a deck with that stuff (Gator Gaurd) and got over spray on my concrete pad and my hot tub cover. The tub and cover are gone but where ever that cover is today the only thing left is that truck liner.
Guide coat is basically just black rattle can paint that you spray on over primer and just put a thin coat on and when you sand the primer down the low spots will be visible because the black will still be there. mostly in my famous pinholes that are in my bondo. lol
When I start blocking primer on my car I'll so some pictures SLO.
Fred uses bed liner. LOL. A guide coat is just a different color coat of something to guide you into knowing what you are sanding on is completely sanded and flat. It should applied super lightly and very sand-able IE lacquer not enamel. enamel is a little rubbery and can clog the paper a little. They make a specific guide coat product in rattle cans too but regular old rattle can lacquer is what I use. They also have a powder and a sponge that you can use that is always dry and can be applied over and over. It's kind of spendy.
I'm so tired of cement dust in my garage I'm about ready to bed line the floor BP.
You said it better for sure. And I cannot get a body line straight without it.
I don't understand Fred? Your concrete generates dust? Is it delaminating? I've used bondo on shitty concrete before. Holds up real well.
Hey BP was talking to my cousin he's a body man and he bought one of those small belt sanders and said is the best thing since for grinding out spot welds even faster than cutter.
Between the both of us we got it pretty well covered.
Not sure what is going on but just dust a thin layer of dust from draging things across the floor. Not deep just like sanding mud kinda dust.
I never thought about using one for that. I don't have one, but the people that I know who have it love it but I dont think they have used it for grinding out spotweld either. I would think it would be cost prohibited compared to fiber disc but I may be wrong.
Never experienced that Fred. I've seen them come apart from freezing while curing. Something happened. Over floated it or a light freeze or dried too fast might do that. Maybe a quick bath and rinse with muratic acid would cure the problem.
Good idea I'll try the acid. I did the cement and my first time with the help of my boys. I was only going to do a section a day but my son ordered all the cement at once and had 3 cement trucks arrive at the same time. Was a mess trying to get it done by 11:00 pm we finished and went to bed and sure **** it rained a small amount that night.
Did you re-trowel it after the rain? That would do it. Forcing the water back into the concrete would definatly make it powdery after it dries. I dont know if I would use truck bed liner but clean it real good and use one of those acrylic concrete sealers.
By the time I got up the next day it as dry so never got to re trowel it. Yea gonna have to paint it, and bed liner is to ruff and expensive anyway.
I googled it Fred. Ya might want to read this... How to Stop Concrete Dusting of your Garage Floor | All Garage Floors
Seems acid is not a fix.
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Spaced pix of cowl support! Hah! included my finger sander. Serious go to tool. Also a pix of rough tax on tunnel with my now dead el cheapo wire welder! I was nursing it and cussing it today. She finally went up in smoke! Fought me all day! And simply the best hood for welding inside a tranny tunnel! Take a look at cowl supports guys and let me know if I need them as well as the inner fenders?
Thanks BP looks like a light dusting so the Siliconate sealer will work good.
You got a belt sander great. The cowl supports are up to you SLO we can fabricate some if you want just go with how much money new ones are. I can bring my 110 Hobart over to do the welding if you need no problem.
Nice tunnel fab. I'm impressed.
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No worries Fred, I still have a stick welder plus a heli arc here! Welders I got! I have been cussing that dumb wire feeder for a couple of years it was time for it to either die a horrible death or function! At least now I can replace it. I will look at cowl supports and depending on cost might just make those myself. I really got a lot done today. Amazing how much fun I am having again now that the pressure of paint day is lifted. We have already got an easy 6 inches today and it is still snowing pretty hard. I am done in the shop and am already curled up in front of fire with a toddie! I started on the Demon early today and I usually can only go about 6 hrs then my creative bone just kind of dies!
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Well I pulled the trigger on the inner fenders
And a radiator core support and a couple of cowl supports. All in, just over 800 bucks with shipping. If I don't end up needing the cowl,supports no worries I can stash them. They were cheap. Inner fenders however not so much. I got them from Summit as I saved about 100 bucks overall with not going direct to AMD. I went to AMD website got part numbers then banged em in Summit. Holy smokes body parts are pricey. Looks like I have to take fenders off to get to inners. Dang it!
And a radiator core support and a couple of cowl supports. All in, just over 800 bucks with shipping. If I don't end up needing the cowl,supports no worries I can stash them. They were cheap. Inner fenders however not so much. I got them from Summit as I saved about 100 bucks overall with not going direct to AMD. I went to AMD website got part numbers then banged em in Summit. Holy smokes body parts are pricey. Looks like I have to take fenders off to get to inners. Dang it!
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