Projects A Body Work Lesson For EVERYONE!!

I found this today while fixing some work done by the previous owner of my 51 Chevy. The lesson is clear. Always remember that when you are slopping fiberglass and tons of Bondo over rusty metal, be sure that you put large nails in it to hold it all together!!

 

Thanks, thats a hell of a tip I have just been stuffing old socks in the dents and filling em that way.

 

that wins tech week....HANDS DOWN!....
i usually use those little finishing nails,,,i can now see that was a total waste of time,,,,

so obvious,,,,yet so ingenious!

 

Nice discovery. Now get back to work on cool Volvos!!!

 

That reinforces my belief that its better to leave the rust as is. Slows down the rot, and its faster than doing a bunch of body work.

 

Nails...thats a new one. iv seen full beer cans, empty beer cans, condoms but nails? now that IS smart!

 

Oh fuck yeah that is sweet!!!

 

Well, that explains EVERYTHING...

 

When did paper towels fall out of favor?

 

was there a 2x4 in there with it,or did the termites already eat it?

 

maybe he was a carpenter ?

 

damn wonder what else youll find

 

Old wire from the screen door always works a treat add a little alumium foil and screwed up newspaper and cardboard and you got yourself a sweet panel and body job reading for selling to some poor unsuspecting soul.
Like I said before this exactly why some States still keep the death penalty on their statutes.

 

I have found cheese graters along with door screen and scotch brite .and flairs made from inner tubes ,but the worst was brass welding .c

 

So you haven't got down to the brass tacks yet ? If he'd used duplex nails, he could have pulled them out.

Lucky667

 

Wow another great use for a nail. Its never ending.

 

so that why the magnet stuck to the quarter panel......

 

eww!!!

 

I've seen nails in there, but the one i''ve seen the most of, and wished i had a pic of, is mig wire with loops in it about every 6-8 inches for good bonding, and put into the fiberglass. I have found that it does help....hehehehe and is very easy to hide.

 

Nails work OK for small rust holes, but it wastes a lot of bondo when it oozes through the hole. Take Red Greens advice. Duct Tape will fix anything, even big rust holes with a nice Skim Coat of bondo. I think I've seen just about every patch trick in the book. Roof flashing, wire screen, cardboard, newspaper, feedsacks, old license plates, wood paneling, and even drywall mud or cement. I even seen a nice pair of fins on a California Custom 50 Chevy fastback outlined with #9 wire, then stacked beer cans and duct tape, all smoothed over with bondo and topped with Kandy Paint. I won't say who owned it.

 

Built a 50 chevy truck for someone else. He bought it from a coal miner in WVA. the floor was torched out of the side of a caterpillar, still had the yellow paint. Inside one of the fenders was a glob of cement. I thought it had just gotten slung up there from the road. Went to go knock it out, it was patching a hole in the lower fender.

 

My Model A had huge bolts inside the concrete the previous owner had poured into the rear inner fender wells...
We pulled it out and all the pieces were formed perfectly.
We shouldve made fiberglass duplicates and sold them to speedway.

 

i won't mention the rod shop by name,but it's a little east of the mississippi river on I-40.i bought a ready to go hot rod from them and it looked sweet,took it off the trailer,drove it to town,frame broke at the a-arm.i started peeling layers of aluminum tape off the frame.it was smoothed over an old crack and then under coating was sparyed over that.the guy was a real jerk and said it was my fault for not looking...hell ,i'm nearly 60 and blind as a bat...how could i see under that a-arm.

 

hold up! you guys are doing this shit all wrong!!!..you need to use drywall screws

 

I'm waiting to see drywall plaster and "reinforcing" tape -- both the paper AND fiberglass varities.

 

I bet that makes you excited about what else you are gonna find. I was welding a hole on the floor board of my 49 and wondered why it kept smoking after laying the bead....nice big fat fiberglass repair holding the floorboard in. They toe boards were only spot welded in and then fiberglassed over.

good luck. its never fun to clean up someones elses 1/2 asst work.

 

Shit, i was going to buy some patch panels for my Chevy but after reading this post i'm off to Home Depot to buy some cement and nails.

 

Oh I see the problem, the nail was sideways!

 

i used nails to fill the holes in my trunk lid.dont see the problem with them....

 

Does it take a special welder to weld bondo? I'm going down to Harbor Freigt in the morning and see if I can get me one.