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Hi Si!
Great thread & good work.
Just been spinning through this thread as Gracie has considerable steel worm in her sills bless her.
This'll be my first foray into body repair, but I have bundles if keeness, so it's easy, right? LOL!
Was just looking at central panels & the sills are listed as galvanised, but they certainly don't look it - more likely zinger, am I right?
A bit nervous if my first "proper" welding job in through galvanising.
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Hi Tinc mate. hope you are all well. They didnt look galvanized to be fair but a good fit and i was happy with the quality and price.I've been bodgeing up motors for the mot for years but this was my first go at proper bodywork. Plenty of practice with the mig and you will be fine mate.
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I'm always banging on about garages and bodyshops not putting the love into a job that you would do yourself.My mate Dean has a large bodyshop in Lempster and painted Mol's bonnet,wings,front panel and bumpers in June 2019.Well less than 2 years later and its peeling off the rear bumper. Not the right primer or prep? You tell me ,as you know what i know about painting would fit on the back of a penny black.
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Crap prep, sandin big flat areas get plenty of attention, fiddly awkward corners less so.
plastic primer if one was used dries clear, even so, there's normally a load of hi build on bumpers or were these smooth ones rather than textured?
Some people put plasticiser into paint if it's going on bumpers but if you flex a bumper, no paint even with plasticiser in it will bend as much as a plastic bumper, so I dont bother.
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