<VV> body advice

[Harry Yarnell]

Alan rambles a bit, but  he's correct, SOME Bondo will be used to feather
repairs.

Harry Yarnell
perryman garage and orphanage
perryman, MD
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> body advice


> > no bondo
>
> This is impossible. I have lost count of the number of times people have
> told me their restored car has 'no bondo' in it. Since the demise of lead
> loading, ALL body repairs have some bondo in them. Even the best welder
will
> distort the metal slightly when he is welding the part in, and he will
HAVE
> to use a thin skim of bondo to rectify it (unless, as I said, he lead
loads
> it - which is not only expensive but pointless, as bondo will do the job
> fine).
>
> My Lotus guy only does butt-welding (never welds a panel above or below
the
> surface it is adjacent to, but makes it as flush as possible, usually with
a
> little rebated overlap). When he has finished, I take over and finish the
> job with bondo - like every bodyshop in the world. My job is arguably more
> important than his, because it is the last 1%, not the first 99%, that
makes
> the job look fantastic or awful. And the last 1% is the bondo...
>
> > and holes replaced with metal
>
> That's fine! What you actually mean is 'no bondo filling holes up'. That
> makes sense. Bondo should only be used for surface shaping, and not to
> replace welding.
>
> Actually, it's fine for replacing welding, as long as you understand that
it
> has a limited life span, but 'limited' if done well (all rust cut out,
back
> of panel painted and waxoyled afterwards) can mean up to 30 years. I did
my
> 1956 Ford Anglia with bondo in 1976, because I had no money and couldn't
> weld. It is just getting ready to be done again (although the bits that
have
> started to go rusty aren't the bits I fixed with bondo - they are the bits
> that Ford made to begin with, and which hadn't rusted in 76, but have
now!).
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan, off out to finish bondoing a customer's car where we have welded it!
>
>
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