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A file that can be bent.......is not a file.
A file that can be bent.......is not a file.
Anyone old enough to see auto shop working with lead filler and curved files?
Thanks for the replies. I should've known. $10 + $10 shipping.
Hello Matt,
Anyone old enough to see auto shop working with lead filler and curved files?
The following picture is of a full metal finish restoration, that I prepared earlier, being readied for primer. No Plastic Filler in this one.
Regards,
Bill
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The good news? My beloved 2005 X350 is all Aluminium.
The BAD news? My beloved 2005 X350 is all Aluminium.
Hope you don't have to drive where they use road salt. Up here in the People's Democratic Republic of western NY, they use enough salt during our siberian winters to make the shoulders crusty and attract cows. Never mind that the Governor's family owns an interest in some salt mines...
Not really clear on what "cockles of me heart" even ARE. But it warms mine to know the Old Skewl art is not yet lost.
Thanks for that!
The good news? My beloved 2005 X350 is all Aluminium.
The BAD news? My beloved 2005 X350 is all Aluminium.
Trying like Hell not to prang the sweet bitch.
Nor ever forget that "rust" is only one form of corrosion among hundreds... when your motorcar is built out of "fuel" in the Atomic activity series...
At least it weren't Sodium?
Is the file tang straight or bent to funny shapes? If bent its certainly auto body file like this:
Body File "PFERD" - Cut On One Side
Hello thermite,
The fellow that taught me (Tom), was the best.
When he retired from business, he took on a Panel Beating teaching job. As well as teaching apprentices, he ran a journeyman's class for those restoring their own cars. One fellow in a class was restoring an A Model Ford and as he brought panels into class to work on, Tom would make a paper pattern; it gives the rough shape to be cut from sheet and an indication of where the metal has to be Shrunk, or Stretched, of the part and created a new panel in Aluminium. In the course of a year (working at the pace panels were brought into class), he hand made a complete half of an A Model Body (from centre line out), including the Pleated Seats, Rag Top etc., all in Aluminium. On completion, it was mounted on the back wall of one of the Theory Class Rooms.
Regards,
Bill
Understanding WHY anyone that bright, otherwise, would ever buy a Borgward Isabella, and then also REPAIR it?
That part was beyond my ken...
... there came the realization, that the cars that were Lemons 30 years ago, with the passing of time, hadn't improved.
There are cars that makes you wonder why anyone would put the time and money into resurrecting them.
Anyone old enough to see auto shop working with lead filler and curved files?
Yes, many times, and for the record it wasn't straight lead, but an alloy ...of what we in the UK know as Plumbers solder (80% lead, 20% tin) which has a wide plastic range (so it can be worked with spatulas or wiping cloths) - unlike pure lead or electrical / tinmans solder which is almost either solid or liquid.
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