Nothing To Exciting 30 Ford Sheetmetal Work!

Subscribed!! Great work. I'm going to use this thread as a how-to when I get to working on my A coupe body. Don't know what I'll find under the puddy.

 

damn nice work

 

no tickets yet bloddy knuckles?!?!

it is pretty easy spdjnky.just takes time and patience and time and time

finished up the sub-frame welded up and primed. it was a fun piece to make with the curve in it



this quarter was pretty tweaked. .ard to see if the pic it took a good hit at one point






file hammer repeat to infinity



came out pretty nice the body line still need work



the quality of the panels hahahah



and we are tacked in

 

that back corner has some demons to be exorcised lol

 

I need to learn how to use a body file the right way and the theory behind what the metal is doing while using it.
Nice work FLOP!

Brian

 

****en amazing!!!!!!!!

 

What he said!!

 

Great job

 

decklid

someone had a ******* dance on this thing!!





most of this was stud gun work mostly all the dents were behind braces. and some shrinking hammer here and there

about half way through





its not 100 percent metal finished but its pretty damn nice in my book

 

you ****! whats it like to be good at metal repair????? damn that decklid looks great!

 

lookin good see your using the stud gun, got one off ebay haven't used it yet guess i will

hear from Gary ? i haven't heard a word guess he's done haulin

 

Tell him, Omar!

 

You rock, Flop! Great work as usual.

 

Damn nice work Flop!!! You make it look easy but I know better... I never cease to be amazed at the level of talent that has been brought together here on the H.A.M.B... Keep up the good work!!!

 

reaaly big creep its not to exciting haha just kidding its kinda fun but you dont wanna know how much **** ive ruined to get to being just ok.

zziron i wish i would hear from him ive had a ton of stuff i wanted but no cheap offers on shipping

the stud gun was a life saver on this one . the customer didnt want to pull the skin in order to save some cash but it worked out in the end.

thanks brerhair and rockable.

chop top those panels should be here tomorrow i will post what they look like

 

got the patch panels from macs in the mail today. JUNK! same as the other ones just on a better piece of metal.


so it needed more subframe work nothing fancy or pretty here









heres the og piece of body line i have to re weld in after fixing the subframe.gonna keep as much of this around as possible because aparently it is impossible to remake .




well i ruined one of the patch panels trying to make it work so i finally said **** it im making my own panels . so far i have a much nice start then what i got as a patch panel. i used a piece of 20 guage for the first run just to see what i could make it do and i like the results. switich to 18 gauge for the final product.

as mr pimpin paint would call it i used my commie bead roller some conduit and bruce springsteen on the ipod. wish i woulda started working on these in the begining of the day instead of messing with the patch panels.

i made this up in about 20 mins and quite happy once i get the hard line from the step die out i think ill be good to go





you can see i started to get the hard line out on the edge. pretty excited about this!!

 

Very Nice Ive got another A that need patches, I live in pa what doesnt. But I think Im going to make them like that. The patches they sell are garbage your lucky if you can get one line to line up.

 

Hey Flop,

That's uh wonnaful,wonnaful work you've rendered there!

And now you know why I'd rather walk through hell on Sunday, than try and use repop panels in repair work.

The deck lid looks killer, now! Those semi & flat, double walled panels are a major ***** to straighten sometimes. I'd next buff the whole deck lid with a 60 closed coat disc on a 7'' or 9'' backing pad, using overlapping p***es. This will raise or point out any remaining lows or highs in the panel and tighten it up, just as a shrinking disc would. Too, this will prep the panel for a slime coat of ''pink metal'' if that's the way out you've chosen.

What was the selection of sushi for the lunch offering?

" All great truths begin as blasphemies "

 

Damn Flop that before pic of the deck lid looks like my roof.
Maybe there is hope for mine. haha

 

thanks pimpin for the tips!! the sushi was some kinda blue crab roll!! hahah always appreciate your comments!!

theres always hope spdjnky

heres what i did today

the wheel well is in and it fought every minute of it for some reason .oil cans here oil cans there what a pain but it came out nice in the end. now i wish this one was mine it would make a hell of a start on a hot rod haha!!





tomorrows mission pick up some 18 gauge and make the lower quarter patches and body lines!!

 

so far so goooood! cant wait to have a patch thats gonna fit and look right at the same time.



more info for all you model a folks when im completley finished up with it

 

I'm starting to think that someone could make some decent coin if they actually made good patch panels.

 

i have to agree with ya hitch .i really dont know how hard it could be to make a nice set of panels that look the part.. hell they already make the panels just do a ****ty job on them that people are still stuck making them from scratch on one of the most popular cars to restore etc...

 

Hey,

You guys ain't the first to wonder 'bout dis!

One of the problems I've run across especially with early Ford tin is that Ford used several different stamping contractors! Just for the Model A alone, over the four years of production, & how many different models were offered? The 32's get even weirder, and the '33-'34's well ya get the idea? Stamping dies don't hold their edges for long, and the chances that the master part off of which the repopped dies were based, and the eighty-year old plus panel you need being anywhere close to the same shape are probably like the odds of the state lotto! And I'm not talkin the kinda patch panels that look as if they were formed over a block of ice whyle waring a blindfold, either.
Building vs. buying patch panels-It's like the difference between buying a "Target" motor and building your own motor, on the bench ,in your shop- the first is a blind leap of hope, the second, a more predictable outcome.

" Humpty Dumpty was pushed "

 

that does make sense.....I just got back from the gene winfield work shop so I'm ready to start pounding metal... I definitely got some good techniques to start making my own. Hopefully they come out as nice as flop's

Edit: Flop would you post pictures of the tools you used to make the panels.

 

good info pimpin! I wish the patch panels die would lose its edge then it would have a nice round curve instead of the square one it has hahah.

hitch i used 18 gauge
modified harbor freight bead roller with a step die.
conduit to bend the metal around something
hammer/ dolly
sheetmetal break
shrinker stretcher.

 

thanks! Nothing to crazy there as far as tools go...

 

Nice job ! I have a question .... What do you use to have a so smooth finish after grinding the welds ? I usually use a flap disk on the grinder , but it seems too aggressive to me ..
Thanks .

 

nali .i use 80 grit sand paper on a block usually. but that doesnt fix dents or grinder marks. hammer and dolly and a bunch of careful grinding do most of the work.

stock .mine.repop panel




alllll taacked in finally!!!





also tiged up some stress cracks behind the bracket that holds the support rod to the rad

 

Nice metal work!!!