TheSamba.com :: View topic - Eriba Puck bodywork. Is it aluminum? Something else?

Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:16 pm

Curious if anyone here knows what the body of an Eriba Puck is made if? A magnet did not attached to it but it still seems like a metal. Is it aluminum that a magnet does not stick too?

Anyway, mine has some dents. I wondered when the time comes, how I can attack these dents? I have never done body work before but if this is aluminum, is it the same as sheet metal, where you pull the dents as best as you can ad fill with body filler, sand, prime, paint? Or, some other process?

Thanks in advance.

Just looking to the future on what I will need to do.

tj

Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:42 pm

Most likely Aluminum.

Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:01 pm

Looking at other threads on the samba here, they appear to be aluminum panels on a steel space frame.

You should be able to gets the dens out the same way. Aluminum is very soft, so it should take much if the dents are minor.

Biggest thing with aluminum is to clean extremely well. Its very hard to get clean. If you wipe it down once with wax and grease remover it won't be enough (it'll pull so much black soot off of it), you'll have to do it several times for some decent adhesion for epoxy primers, etc.

I'd suggest using some epoxy after you sand it out and clean it. You'll need it for adhesion for the paint to actually stick well. You can still put body filler down as you would with steel.