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    Sneak preview of the powder coating, here's one of the inner fenders...











    Kyle working on more media blasting, we should have another batch for powder
    coating this weekend....











    With the passenger door removed and out of the way, I worked on the
    radius-ing and repairing of the lead gap seam. First to check the radius of the
    completed driver's side with the Gatormeet radius gauge...











    Radius patch is bent using roll former dies in the Diacro press brake and
    checked to the radius gauge...

















    The patch is trimmed for the fit to the A-pillar, and a horizontal tail is
    left to have something to hold on to while tacking in place. A score is added
    using the cutoff wheel so the excess can be snapped off after tacking...





























    Welded and dressed..











    Roof skin patch trimmed and fitted...

















    Welded...

















    Welds dressed and radius checked...





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    More progress on the wagon today. Kyle had finished the media blasting on the hood brace, so we had a few areas to address. As the hood ornament no longer exists, we didn't need the mounting holes going through the brace.



    A piece of brass flat bar is radius-ed to make an anvil..



    High spot is heated and tapped down with the hammer.. Then pick the next high spot and repeat....







    Slot is welded closed, welds dressed, area media blasted once again...







    Kyle working on prepping the passenger door for primer... Sorry for the blurry picture, gonna have to fire the photographer!



    The hood ornament hole in the cross brace was also welded closed and dressed...







    Next on the list were the stress cracks on the ends of the hood brace.





    Some 16 gauge CRS was used to make some stiffeners inside the corners...



    test fit..



    Plug welded in place and the flanges wrapped around... cracks repaired...









    Test fit to the hood...

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    As always you are the man. Great work

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    Thanks! Looking forward to seeing some more green paint on that truck.. I'm sure you are as well!



    Tonight Kyle was putting the finishing touches on prepping the passenger door for paint. Lots of nooks and crannies. We ended up moving the drill press so we could open the media blast cabinet door wide enough to put the door inside. It was a snug fit, but made easier work of cleaning the door on the ends... The rest will be done by hand...





    After adding the radius to the doors, it only made sense that the lift gate needed the same modification. Sorry to bore you with more of the same, just wait until we get to wet sanding





    Test fit the radius...



    Scoring the second cut location, and tacking in place..









    Snapped of the excess....



    Checking the radius, and welded in and dressed...





    They're calling for a heat wave this weekend (in high 40's on Sunday), so we should get some more primer sprayed....
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    Robert, curious why you're powdercoating instead of painting the inner fenders.
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    Got enough to paint now..
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    Kyle finishing up the prep on the door this morning, found another use for the GatorMeet radius square, here used as a sanding block to get into the tight crevices...



    Front fenders were both prepped with DA and 80 grit..





    SPI Epoxy is mixed to allow for induction...





    As the body parts had been soda blasted, it was cleaned with a hot soapy water (dish detergent) and a grey Scotchbrite, followed by a towel drying session.



    Then this was followed up with preclean...







    The door handle backing plates had not yet been installed on the back side of the door skins, so a coat of epoxy was sprayed on both, and then bolted together to allow to cure..





    A good shot of the door paint fixture in action...



    Two coats applied...







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    Damn those parts look nice and flat. Great work Robert. What's the plan from here? Are you going to assemble the parts and block them with the body?

    Prepping my bare metal for the first time really made me nervous, because I knew it was the key to a long-lasting paint job.
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    It's not as flat as it looks. All the parts sprayed today have some dings and waves here and there. But yes, we plan to reinstall on the body and block across, then epoxy again. Then we should soon get the body back on the rotisserie..
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    Awesome

    So much skill involved with the fab work here..I'm jealous
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