Me neither, I had to wring info out of the tightlipped chap over the years. He didn't like painting vans but he didn't want me to do it either!
Moving round the bus now on o the next pannel started to remove the arch and repair the little bit of rust behind and made a start and removing some of the heaps of filler but not as bad as the other side thank god nearly ready to start fitting the arch Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Fitted a couple of good led lights ready for painting ect will work my way round the bus allso stone chipped tubs and inner sills ect day off today and roof off tomorrow and windows out Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Finally got all the bloody filler out this side and unpicked the old joke of a repair and been fetling with this arch all night joggeled panel and it's pretty much there for welding hope to get it all in this weekend Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
You painting it the same colour, not sure on ours if changing the colour. Looks like your getting it to how you want......
Yes same colour just a few body colour changes like bumpers ect and dash Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
A good day on it got the arch tacked in tub bonded inside allso stone chipped inside the arch pannel just cleaned off where bonded and welding allso finished metal work on the big rear corner job I did and skin of fibre glass over welds most be sanded off but looks a lot better Be close to primmer this time next month I recon Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Not much to see really photo wise but anyone who has done body work getting this straight (which isn't far off now) has taken a lot of man hours Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
It's just long and dirty as u wel know mate but this is the hardest side but only a day or 2 and this side will be ready fir 1st coat of high build primer which I got the other day Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The more I did this, the bigger my spreader got and the larger the areas I filled got. Number plates are quite good but a bit small. I once saw a plasterer final finishing stud a partition with thing that must have been 6ft long. Wham, bam and done while I drunk a cuppa, whole room done in 20 minutes while his mate on stilts did the ceiling. Hat's off to them.
I figured this out also matey I made a 4ft long bit out of a lift safety edge that made a big difference then fine tuned the worse bits only few small skins left and then need to highbuild it to get a good starting point when it's all 1 colour allso helps Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yep, never mind the holes first pass, get a good shape then fill them in. I tried to do that with minimal sanding between, then (tried to) leave long enough for both those applications to harden equally. There's always the next panel to fill or the previous one to sand while you wait.
Yes matey I was gonna try prime it in sides so I can fill corners and sand and fill others Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I messed up mine in a rush and I know exactly what I did in case you're interested in a "don't do this"! I had a bit of filler left, hardly any really, a cubic inch maybe. There's always somewhere to put it and to celebrate my last ever (I hoped) fillering I used it up in the morning and high build primed over it about 6 hours later. Too soon. Two years later in the bright sun those exact bits turned into saucer sized blisters. There must have been some solventy type stuff still trapped in the filler.
So leave it a while before like over night I was gonna do 1 good coat of high build and fill to get straight as ! Then another 2 good coats to sand flat and wet sand Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Exactly, leave it overnight or certainly don'paint same day. If you had an infra red panel (like my mentor had) you could speed things up at every stage but I didn't have one. He would fill, prime one day and flat, topcoat the next, but small repairs he'd force all that through in one day.
Iv got a couple of small space heaters to try keep the moisture out but same day stuff ect will take me a day to fully clean out the little booth so no problem with that shall bare it in mind Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
