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It'll be finished for April though wont it Nicolai?

gpts1 wrote:Two words, F@#kn Painter, anyway that's enough on the mans thread.

One more since it is my thread, Holy crap that bike is going to be amazing! Great work, I look forward to following your thread.

I suppose in update is in order although I haven't really done anything cool. Just stripped some paint off my tail light and horncast and started putting together a parts list.







Should look good up on the white legshield I'm getting from a clubmate. The whole idea I think will be kind of a period trials racer that should look like it's been in the shed for 40 years.

Love it...looking good

Totally snaked this idea from UlyssesCale, a fellow LCUSA member. Got my vintage wipac spot mounted on the fancy legshield I got from fellow LCUSA member punk.

Turned out pretty nicely overall. I was going to drill the bolt to run the wire through but it's a long sucker and I don't have a drill bit that can do it so I still need to run that.

Very sturdy overall and looks good.

Here's what it looks like with the oil holder mounted up.

Here's the rust holes in the floor after I went over it with one of those rust buster 3M pads you use on a drill. Needless to say, it was extremely thin and what had only looked like little holes actually were quite a bit bigger after the rust buster removed all the rotten metal surrounding them.



So after staring at it for a few days, I figured I better get cutting and removed the sections I intended to replace. I had originally removed 4 sections corresponding to the 4 holes but after an extremely ill fated first attempt at patching them, I had to cut out everything I screwed up plus more so the patches got bigger. I won't bore you with pictures of what it shouldn't look like as I was far too embarrassed to even take any.



From there I just traced a pattern and cut/bent a replacement patch. It's a lot more involved then just welding in a new piece and grinding it down (that's what I did the first time ) and I won't say that having only done it successfully one time makes me in any way an expert but I am rather pleased with the end result. No warping and not all thin from grinding although on a resto it would at the very least still need a bit of filler to be perfect.



Finished up the floorboard repair although I still need to drill the hole for the back strut as that piece was replaced.





I also was able to get the lower spare holder strap mounted up. It's just another leather belt but for a child I think as it's tiny. I picked it up from the thrift store for $ .75 on half price day and just slotted the center channel of the floor and wrapped it around the frame.

I'm trying to think of what else I've got to do, but I think at this point I just need to start building it. I've taken apart the motor for it and everything looks fab so I'll be ordering bits for that and a few miscellaneous parts for the body so that I have everything I need to finish it up.

Some nice work here. I do like the 'fix-it don't fling-it' approach!

I'm guessing your welding is 'TIG' (and not MIG) to achieve the penetration and access to seam but lack of distortion and accumulation on the panel pieces?

With lesser skills, I once plugged an even more 'holey' legshield with brass 'braize'. It worked OK (I could not be bothered to finnish-off the inderside of the legshield) . Silver solder is also an option if the parent is not too thin.

However I do not posess your manupilations skills with just a vice as support (working on it). Percievering with the 'deep' toolbox door cut-away rather than raising the spare holder: dedication and a more attractive result!

Respect!

Can wait to see this done! really great build!

Yanker wrote: I'm guessing your welding is 'TIG' (and not MIG) to achieve the penetration and access to seam but lack of distortion and accumulation on the panel pieces?

However I do not posess your manupilations skills with just a vice as support (working on it).

Mig welder with argon/o2 mix shielding gas. I can't tig if my life depended on it yet. I bought one but use it to practise on scrap until I can get a little better!

Yep, just a vice, a hammer and an assortment of different sized bolts and axles to use as dollies to get the curves right.

The biggest trick to getting the patch panels not to distort the legshield was to do a series of tack welds, peen them with a hammer and dolly, do some more tack welds, peen those with the hammer and dolly, grind it all flat, add some more tack welds, etc, etc until the entire patch is welded in. My first attempt resulted in a complete failure as I didn't know about the peening step and ended up oil canning the floor. After I cut that out, I did a little research on the Jalopy Journal forum and learned about the peening step which stretches the metal out that you shrank when you tack welded it. It still wasn't easy but it the end results were greatly improved!