what a difference, keep it up you're doing really well. _________________ Jean & Alex
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if it was meant to go fast, it wouldn't be brick shaped
Sorry I have my photos a bit out of sequence.
I didn't get started on the painting until after we had the motor rebuilt by our awesome mechanic Mick Budge out at Verrierdale (Sunshine Coast qld).
We brought it home then and had planned to get it painted really quickly, unfortunately, with no carport and the longest wet season we have had in years it seemed to take forever!
A few photos above show the progress out in the weather on our driveway until our wonderful next door neighbour took pity on us and let us move it into his garage
There was some rust in the sills when we took the windows out. Originally we weren't going to but the side windows were leaking so we didn't have much choice. Most of the rust was just on the surface though. I just wire brushed it like crazy and hit it up with rust converter, then xtroll then the paint. I AM a novice though and I am just really hoping that was enough. The windscreen on the other hand was way worse than the side windows. In some places I made small holes in my efforts to remove the rust.... and I wish i had had the money and know-how to weld a new bit across there...as it was, I gave it the rust converter/xtroll treatment then bogged it .... I am expecting to have problems down the track with this but at least with the amount of xtroll I used and everything else (new rubber, etc) I will hopefully have delayed the cancer for a while.
Yeah, that sounds about right, i think if i took my front window out, i'd loose about an inch of metel to rust here. Getting a quote for someone to take it out and fix it up soon.
Common problem so i've heard. Anyway. Great work there!!
_________________ Cheers
Mustard Man
Rich
'1972 Microbus'
'Its not the destination, but the journey that counts'
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.... I am expecting to have problems down the track with this but at least with the amount of xtroll I used and everything else (new rubber, etc) I will hopefully have delayed the cancer for a while.