The Improbable Car Company ([info]improbable_cars) wrote,
@ 2007-03-14 20:54:00
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Interior Re-do parts 2 & 3
Day two:

  Velvet came over to look at the floors, and decided it was within his welding skills. So we spent the day cutting out the bad section of the driver's side, grinding away the paint, rust and undercoating from around the hole, and fabricating a patch panel. The patch panel is from a section of roof cut out of a junk Omni in Velvet's yard. Nothing like bringing the quality of an '80's Dodge sub-compact to bear on my project.
  We also did more grinding on the passenger side and found more rot, looks like we're goign to need two decent sized patch panels to get it all. Feh.
  Would have welded the patch in, but we had the wrong guage wire in the welder.

Day three:

  Velvet came over and we welded the patch in. That's it really, but it too for bloody ever. I also cut out the first area of rot on the passenger side, but wasn't able to finish prepping that side as I couldn't run power tolls while Velvet was running the welder (circuit overload).

Need to gridn down the welds on the driver's side and make sure there aren't any gaps or pinholes in the welds. Then need to grind down and prep the passenger side, and form patch panels. Minimum two more days work on the floors I'm thinking.

Rug showed up today, haven't had them out of the box yet, but I'm excited.



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